Cost of Quality Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Cost of Quality Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Cost of Quality related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Cost of Quality specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Cost of Quality Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cost of Quality improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. What processes are or should be in place to coordinate with external systems on the availability of funding, organizational, and human resources necessary for the implementation of the program?
   
   

2. Which basic types of process structures is one in which equipment or work processes are arranged according to the progressive steps by which the product is made?
   
   

3. What are the total poor quality cost from your supplier all the way through the entire lifecycle till the end of the product cycle itself?
   
   

4. What approaches will be used to identify and respond to challenges and barriers that will emerge in implementation?
   
   

5. How do you distinguish between your governance role and that of a supporter or team player for your organization?
   
   

6. What are your organization and local departments and organizations that will be implementing the strategic plan?
   
   

7. What supports are or should be in place to keep staff informed, organized, and moving toward the project goals?
   
   

8. What evidence is there that quality supports offered by your organization meaningfully affect program quality?
   
   

9. Can source code auditing software identify common vulnerabilities and be used to evaluate software security?
   
   

10. How do you ensure that your first production assembly generated from a virtual prototype is going to work?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Cost of Quality book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Cost of Quality self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Cost of Quality Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Cost of Quality areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Cost of Quality Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Cost of Quality projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Cost of Quality Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Cost of Quality project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Probability and Impact Assessment: Are staff committed for the duration of the Cost of Quality project?
   
   

2. Quality Management Plan: How do you decide who is responsible for signing the data reports?
   
   

3. WBS Dictionary: Changes in the nature of the overhead requirements?
   
   

4. Risk Management Plan: What are the cost, schedule and resource impacts of avoiding the risk?
   
   

5. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Did the Cost of Quality project team have enough people to execute the Cost of Quality project plan?
   
   

6. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Is there a reason why you are or are not not using an external rating system?
   
   

7. Quality Metrics: What approved evidence based screening tools can be used?
   
   

8. Source Selection Criteria: Comparison of each offers prices to the estimated prices -are there significant differences?
   
   

9. Assumption and Constraint Log: Have adequate resources been provided by management to ensure Cost of Quality project success?
   
   

10. Schedule Management Plan: Are enough systems & user personnel assigned to the Cost of Quality project?


 
Step-by-step and complete Cost of Quality Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cost of Quality project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Cost of Quality project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Cost of Quality project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Cost of Quality project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Cost of Quality project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Cost of Quality project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Cost of Quality project with this in-depth Cost of Quality Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cost of Quality projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Cost of Quality and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Cost of Quality investments work better.

This Cost of Quality All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.