11. Managing Quality

This chapter explains why and how to help your team do quality work. Quality management is important because poor-quality work is expensive, time consuming, and produces unsatisfactory products. Poor-quality products can damage your reputation, hurt your organization’s business, and harm your customers. They could even kill people. The topics covered in this chapter are the following.

image What is quality?

image Why is quality important?

Why manage quality?

The principles of quality management.

The quality journey.

The TSP quality ...

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