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Quality and Project Management: Sibling Rivalry

The rote mind solicits data, the analytic mind pursues knowledge, the profound mind envisions meaning.

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Projects can be done without hardware and software…but not without people.

Kim Webb

Teaming is an essential element of both project and quality management disciplines. Chapters 2 and 3 showed that effective management transformation and teaming require 1) radical corporate cultural change, from command/obedience-centered to participative enabling-focused environments, and 2) overcoming resistance to that change. This chapter compares common quality management/project management traits, offering insights into how they can jointly meet these two demands and ensure successful teaming ...

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