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Quality is an important concept in project management and permeates all phases of the project life cycle. Quality should be in mind from beginning to end of every project, and is just as important as budget, schedule, or scope. Whether you find that you need to: Create a plan to manage quality in the planning phase. Are performing quality checks in the execution phase. Need to reevaluate quality standards in the monitoring & controlling phase.   You will find that, as important as schedule, budget or scope is in judging the success of a project, quality is usually just as important. Read this article to learn the basic concepts of quality project management and how it relates to project success. 1. What is quality? Why does it matter?   Quality is a measure of how good or bad something is. In project management, it's the degree to which all deliverables required for the project plan meet customer requirements. Quality in business is the degree to which all deliverables requ

  What do you need to know to succeed in project management? Everything! While there is some truth to that joke, it is not helpful for the student or the experienced professional who is looking for a way to understand the many responsibilities of being a project manager. The project management tools, terms, knowledge, and skills are vast. This is why PMBOK was created — to help unify and standardize all these different parts. What is PMBOK in Project Management? PMBOK is the Project Management Body of Knowledge. It is a set of standard terminology and guidelines for project management published and updated by The Project Management Institute (PMI). Project Management Knowledge Areas Project Management Institute has divided the large field of project management into ten more digestible parts, which it calls the 10 project management knowledge areas in its A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Project management knowledge areas coincide with the process groups, whi