True/False

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

____ 1. The quality assurance process involves taking responsibility for quality throughout the projects life cycle.

____ 2. Validated changes and validated deliverables are the outputs of the quality assurance process.

____ 3. The design of experiments technique cannot be applied to project management issues such as cost and schedule trade-offs.

____ 4. Customer requirements are an important aspect of the quality planning process.

____ 5. Reliability is the ability of a product or service to perform as expected under deviant conditions.

____ 6. Project managers are ultimately responsible for quality management on their projects.

____ 7. Only in-house auditors can perform quality audits.

____ 8. Products that are accepted by project stakeholders are considered to be validated deliverables.

____ 9. A run chart is a bar graph that depicts data points and their order of occurrence.

____ 10. The Six Sigma approach works best for a project where a quality problem is identified between the current and desired performance.

____ 11. The term sigma means median.

____ 12. Testing as a stage is important only at the end of an information technology product development.

____ 13. Integration testing involves testing of each individual component to ensure that it is as defect-free as possible.

____ 14. In TQC, product quality is more important than production rates, and workers are allowed to stop production whenever a quality problem occurs.

____ 15. Gantt charts cannot be used to aid project quality management.