Quality Policy

An organizational policy that sets the fundamental principles and direction guiding how the organization establishes, operates, and improves its quality management system.

Key Points

  • Defined and endorsed by top management to align with mission, values, and strategy.
  • Guides the setting of quality objectives, standards, and responsibilities across projects and operations.
  • Communicated to employees and relevant stakeholders to steer decisions and trade-offs that affect quality.
  • Provides the foundation for quality planning, assurance, continuous improvement, and audits/compliance.

Example

A company states in its quality policy that it will meet customer and regulatory requirements, prevent defects through risk-based thinking, and continually improve processes. A project manager launching a new software project uses this policy to set quality objectives, define acceptance criteria, plan code reviews and testing gates, and prioritize corrective actions when defects are found.

PMP Example Question

During project initiation, the project manager reviews the organization's quality policy. What is its primary purpose?

  1. To specify the project's detailed inspection checklists
  2. To define overarching principles that govern how quality is managed across the organization
  3. To list all quality metrics to be used on the project
  4. To approve the project's quality budget

Correct Answer: B — Organizational guiding principles for managing quality

Explanation: A quality policy sets the high-level principles and direction for the quality management system, not the project's detailed checklists, metrics, or budget approvals.

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