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Defect

A flaw or shortcoming in a project component or deliverable that fails to satisfy its stated requirements or specifications, requiring correction through repair or replacement.

Key Points

  • Represents nonconformance to documented requirements, specs, or tolerances.
  • Typically detected through inspections, testing, reviews, or walkthroughs.
  • Must be addressed by rework, repair, or replacement and may generate a change request.
  • Should be logged, prioritized by severity and impact, and tracked to verified closure.

Example

During a quality inspection, core samples from a concrete slab show compressive strength below the specified rating. The affected section is classified as a defect and must be removed and re-poured to meet the requirement.

PMP Example Question

During Control Quality, the team finds that several delivered cables do not meet the fire-resistance rating specified in the design. What is this finding best described as?

  1. Risk event
  2. Issue
  3. Defect
  4. Scope creep

Correct Answer: C — Defect

Explanation: The items fail to meet stated specifications, which constitutes a defect that requires repair or replacement.

AI Systems with Claude, for Scrum Masters and Project Managers

Most AI pilots in project management do not fail on the model. They fail because somebody pointed the thing at a decision instead of at a task. This course is built around that distinction, and around the work that follows once you get it right.

Seven sections, taught against one running project from the first lecture to the last. You watch a system get built, then you build the same one against your own sprint. Nothing here is a demo that works only on the example.

You finish with five working systems and you keep them. The sprint report machine turns your board export and standup notes into the report you currently write by hand. The retro intelligence system tells you what the team keeps saying, not just what it said this time. The stakeholder comms engine drafts the update in the register the audience expects. The backlog health monitor flags the quiet decay nobody has time to check for. The risk and dependency tracker follows the chains that actually bite.

Seventy-six working files ship with it, across four sections, so every system is built against real sprint data rather than material invented for a slide. Four sprints of retrospectives, board exports, standup notes, backlog and risk data.

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