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Quality Assurance Services

Our passion for excellence provides the foundation for our quality assurance services.  We believe that quality assessments and early risk identification are proactive measures that contribute to our clients’ business success.  Our clients rely on our independent and objective assessments to help them identify quality improvements in work product as well as reveal areas of potential risk.  As with business process reviews, quality assurance assessments can be done at any time.   However, the following project or contract events and circumstances are ideal opportunities for an independent assessment of work quality and early identification of risk. 

  • Initial information system project planning so you start on the right foot
  • Mid-point in a project before it is too late to make adjustments
  • When entering into a new contract or making changes to an existing contract
  • When establishing contract compliance processes
  • When closing a contract
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Quality Assurance Services
Our Quality Assurance services are tailored to meet each client’s specific needs.  This focus allows us to target the areas you specify and enable us to deliver a QA assessment which addresses your particular concerns.  We bring an independent and objective viewpoint to every QA engagement.   The following is a small sampling of Project and Contract quality indicators and areas that can be assessed:

Initial Information System Project Planning

  • Is the Project Plan sound and thorough?
  • Is it realistic for resources and timing?
  • How can management help the Project Team be successful?

Start of New Contract

  • What areas of the contract should receive regular management attention?
  • What areas of the contract are open to the most risk?
  • What measures can be put in place to mitigate risk?

Establishing Contract Compliance Processes

  • What areas of the contract require compliance monitoring?
  • What procedures should be put in place to effectively monitor compliance?
  • What areas are currently out of compliance and what are the risks?

Project Mid-Point Adjustments

  • Which areas of the project are at risk for late or poor execution?
  • What adjustments to the project plan are needed to finish on time?
  • Will new or different resources be needed?

Interim Changes to a Contract

  • How do the changes alter the risks?
  • Who needs to be informed of the changes and the impacts to current work?
  • Do the changes require new or changes to compliance efforts?

Closing a Contract

  • Have the terms of the contract been satisfied?
  • What areas of the contract created the most issues over its life?
  • How should future contracts be written to avoid the issues encountered?
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