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How to Make a Control Plan in Manufacturing

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A control plan is a document describing everything from measurements, inspections, quality checks or monitoring process parameters required at each phase of a process to ensure that the process outputs conform to the requirements. Once the schedule is done, set a baseline to monitor planned progress against actual progress in real time.

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Cost of Quality (COQ): A Quick Guide

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How COQ does this, especially in project management, is what we’ll define. But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. This is done in two ways as illustrated above: controlling good quality against the failure of control, which leads to bad quality.

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Product Planning Fundamentals: Develop a Product Plan in 6 Steps

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Define a High-Level Vision. You have just developed a product that could potentially be monetized and sold to marketing agencies around the world. Once you have your new product idea, the next step is to develop a high-level vision for the product that can be used to pitch it to potential consumers. Bring Your Idea into Focus.

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SDLC – The Software Development Life Cycle

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The software development life cycle (SDLC) is how it’s done in software development. Let’s define it, look at different models and the best way to manage SDLC. What Is the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process by which software is developed and deployed.

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Importance of Scenario Planning and Analysis in Business

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Scenario planning is a strategy used to consider possible future events for an organization or project to develop an effective and relevant long-term plan to respond positively to that change. It does this by defining the possible outcomes with a probability assigned to each that reflects the degree to which it’s likely to happen.

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Free Strategic Planning Templates for Excel and Word

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When the leadership team defines an organization’s vision, they look toward the future and identify the goals and objectives they want to achieve. Once the vision is defined, then the practical work begins, and strategic planning templates can facilitate that work. This is the start of strategic planning.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

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Find a term you want defined that isn’t on this project management glossary? B – Project Management Terms Backlog Backlog is a term from the Agile methodology Scrum, but is also used across industries to track every single thing that is needed to complete a product in development. It is also called a Business Case.