Owners must manage capital projects well to keep costs under control and ensure a high-quality product is delivered on time. Good communication, sound procedures and processes, and high-tech tools can ...

Project controls monitor and adjust the cost, schedule and scope of a project to ensure that it is completed within budget, on time and as planned. Quality controls check to make sure that the result ...

Poor quality management can place a permanent stain on any project. To avoid this, the project manager must first determine how the client or the project sponsor defines quality--and then follow suit.

In quality planning, the project manager defines and codifies the standards the project will be required to meet to be successful, and how those standards will be achieved and confirmed. Managers ...

Six Sigma is a quality management methodology used to help businesses improve current processes, products, or services by discovering and eliminating defects. The goal is to streamline quality control ...

Organizations aim to improve their processes’ efficiency and effectiveness by reducing waste, which creates a need for experts in project management frameworks and process improvement techniques such ...

The problem-plagued second phase of the $2.8-billion Silver Line rail project in Northern Virginia has come under fire from the agency that will own and operate the transit line upon its completion.

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