Continuous Improvement in Software Development |
This short article will address the TQM concept, continuous
improvement, as it applies to software development. |
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Continuous Improvement Terms Glossary |
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Glossary |
Quality managements terms |
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Optimum Quality Costs and Zero Defects |
Are they Contradictory Concepts? This article provides a
mathematical proof that minimum cost can occur at a defect level of
zero. pdf-file 53 KB |
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Quality Management Principles |
Definitions of an Information on QMPs |
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Quality Management reloaded |
Consumers around the globe today demand the highest quality in all
aspects of a product. It is no longer enough to focus on assuring
that products and services meet their specified requirements.
Quality Management must provide more value to the customer, and that
means it needs to become an integral part of a company’s value
chain. In this article the authors show how this new approach to
Quality Management can work, turning it into a strategic asset with
huge benefits for the company. pdf 2013 |
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Quality Tools Cookbook |
Reference to quality tools: Traditional Quality Tools and Management
and Planning Quality Tools |
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Setting Quality Goals |
This article introduces the half-life method, a normative model for
predicting rates of improvement in processes being addressed by TQM.
Pdf-file 76 KB |
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Seven Basic Quality Tools |
This site briefly explainst the so called “seven quality control
tools,” the “seven basic tools” or the “seven old tools” and leads
to further information |
TOP |
Seven Quality Control Tools |
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Top
100 in Quality 2004 |
Quality's survey reveals the top companies that improve processes,
empower workers and satisfy customers. |
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Why
Quality Programs Fail – and What to Do About It |
Why is it so hard to “bake” quality, as a paramount value, into a
company’s DNA? The answer, in part, is that the issues that
undermine quality typically lie not at the technical level, but far
deeper, at the level of strategy and organization. In our
experience, most companies need to address three major challenges:
ensuring that quality follows strategy, managing people to inspire
quality-creating behaviors, and solving the matrix issue. pdf 2006 |
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AEC |
Spanish Association for Quality |
AIAG |
Automotive Industry Action Group |
AICQ |
Italian Association for Quality |
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
APQ |
Portuguese Association for Quality |
AQC |
Australian Quality Council |
ARC |
Romanian Association for Quality |
ASQ |
American Society for Quality |
Baldrige Award |
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BQF |
British Quality Foundation |
BTQM |
Belgian Association for Total Quality
Management |
CCI |
Council for Continuous Improvement |
CEF |
Center for Excellence - Finnland |
Deming |
British Deming Association |
DFK |
Danish Society for Quality |
EFQM |
European Foundation for Quality Management |
EOQ |
European Organization for Quality |
ESQH |
European Society for Quality in Healthcare |
EUCUSA |
European Customer Satisfaction Association |
Excellence Ireland |
Excellence Ireland |
EZAZ |
Hungarian Society for Quality |
FUNDECE |
Quality Foundation for Excellence Spain |
GFSI |
Icelandic Association for Quality |
HNC |
Hungarian National Committee for EOQ |
ICQFD |
International Council for QFD (Quality Function
Deployment) |
IQA |
The Institute of Quality Assurance |
ISO
online |
International Organization for Standardization |
ISSSP |
International Society of Six Sigma
Professionals |
KAIZEN Institute |
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KalDer |
Turkish Standards Institution |
KDI |
Dutch Foundation for Quality |
MFQ |
Mouvement Fracais pour la Qualite |
NFKL |
Norwegian Association for Quality and
Leadership |
NIQC |
Northern Ireland Quality Centre |
NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NZQ |
New Zealand Quality |
QA |
Quality Assurance Institute |
QuEST
Forum |
The Forum for Quality Excellence for Suppliers
of Telecommunications |
QMS
International |
Registrar for ISO certifications and training,
based UK |
Registrant
Accreditation Board |
Information on RAB approved ISO 9000 and ISO
14001 registrars, training course providers, and individual auditors |
SFK |
Swedish Association for Quality |
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Standards Group on QEDS |
committees can be grouped within four broad
technical disciplines: Quality Management, Environmental Management,
Dependability and Statistics |
VCK |
Belgian Centre for Quality Management |
WQC |
Wales Quality Center |