Owners must manage capital projects well to keep costs under control and ensure a high-quality product is delivered on time. Good communication, sound procedures and processes, and high-tech tools can ...

Project controls monitor and adjust the cost, schedule and scope of a project to ensure that it is completed within budget, on time and as planned. Quality controls check to make sure that the result ...

Poor quality management can place a permanent stain on any project. To avoid this, the project manager must first determine how the client or the project sponsor defines quality–and then follow suit.

Six Sigma is a quality management methodology used to help businesses improve current processes, products, or services by discovering and eliminating defects. The goal is to streamline quality control ...

Total Quality Management is a formal management style premised on the notion that measurement of a finished product or project is insufficient to ensure quality. Instead, each process necessary for ...

Rework is a colossal denominator in cost overruns worldwide, Marco Fahd, Chairman and CEO of Versatile International, told Zawya Projects. Almost 30 percent of construction budgets are wasted on ...

A seasoned small business and technology writer and educator with more than 20 years of experience, Shweta excels in demystifying complex tech tools and concepts for small businesses. Her work has ...

Staying consistent makes everything downstream run smoother Managing quality control in the field is akin to herding cats; it is exhausting, difficult and all but impossible The employee who takes the ...

To remain competitive and gain an edge as a project management professional, it helps to learn one or more of these five critical skills this year Within a competitive job market in which 25 million ...