Quality Audits

Quality Audits is used to see if the project activities being carried out as per the organizational and project policies, processes and procedures. Quality Audits can be internal or external or can be both.

Some of the outcome of the Quality Audits will be:

Identification of non- conformance which means the project is not following the desired steps

Identification of best practices from your projects which can be implemented for other projects

Identification of best practices from other projects which can be considered for your projects

Proactive measures which can be taken to improve the processes which in turn help in team raise productivity

Contribution of each audit in the lesson learned organizational knowledge bank

Quality Audits can be random or scheduled basis. Also this technique ensures implementation of approved change requests.

Quality Audit is used under the process Perform Quality Assurance which is part of Executing process group.