Control Quality, Validate Scope and their relationship

Control Quality and Validate Scope are the processes under Monitor and control Process group. Control Quality is part of the Quality Management knowledge area where as Validate Scope is under Scope management knowledge area. Let us see what these processes means.

Control Quality is to check the correctness of the deliverables which is the output of executing. This process is used to check the correctness of the Product. This is like internal testing. One of the technique is Inspection which means Testing, audit, review, walkthrough...If this Inspection is through then we can move towards Validate Scope process.The output of Control Quality process is Verified deliverables.The verified deliverables will be fed as an input to Validate scope process.

Validate scope is formalizing the acceptance of the deliverables. Who is going to accept the deliverable? Yes, Customer. Before calling the Customer we need to check is the deliverable working as per the requirements or not? That is why Control Quality will be performed before Validate Scope process. Validate Scope is something like User Acceptance Testing(UAT). Here too we are having Inspection as one of the techniques. The output of Validate scope is Accepted deliverables. Then we proceed for closing.