Ensuring quality deliverables!
Welcome once again to my blog, this weeks topic is important when it comes to ensuring your company keeps getting work as well as making sure that the company keeps a good reputation. That’s right the topic for today is quality, while quality seems like it could be a no brainer it’s often quite hard maintaining a level of quality through the whole project without having some sort of plan or metric to measure things by.
One of the best ways to ensure quality is by making sure that the people in charge(project managers) are invested in making sure that quality is on point. In a large project with many different parts and many workers it’s easy to have a worker or a group of workers look at a function or requirement and say that the work is “good enough” since it works the way it’s supposed to but if a project manager looks over the work they can see the project from a higher level (not like they’re smarter but instead they they can see how the project fits into other sections of the project and what needs to be improved). Having one person decide what level is an acceptable level of quality it makes the quality more consistent instead of just letting everyone decide themselves!
It wouldn’t be one of my blogs without a silly analogy so imagine if you will that you happen to be working on a school project that has to do with art. All of you are in a rush so you decide to work on the project in your own time and then put all of your parts together at the end when the project is due. You put all the parts together and find that some of your partners have done way too much detail and work into it making the rest of the parts look worse by comparison and some have done slightly less than they were supposed to. Now imagine instead the same situation where you decided on a group leader who managed to coordinate the group and nudge people when they needed to be nudged and reel people in when they tried to do too much work or do unneeded things.
While the stereotype may be that bosses don’t do anything but take credit for peoples work they happen to be essential when it comes to maintaining quality. A boss can make sure that everyone’s working at an appropriate quality level. Staying on task and even in some cases make sure that the workers feel pride for the work that they’ve done!
In conclusion it may seem like making sure that your deliverables are quality is a no brainer but it can be hard to actually maintain that quality unless you have good people specifically dedicated to making sure that quality is kept a priority! Thank you once again for reading my blog and if you enjoyed it make sure you come back next week for another absolutely riveting topic!