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 ...

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 ...

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.

As an entrepreneur and business owner, you need to ensure that projects throughout your organization are running smoothly. While you may not be the project manager in your own organization, per se, ...

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 ...

This course will provide a mid-level construction professional with strategies and tools practiced by the construction industry in the United States. Emphasis is on scheduling, project set-up, ...

Over the last decade, the introduction of microarray technology has had a profound impact on gene expression research. The publication of studies with dissimilar or altogether contradictory results, ...

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.