| Full title | Design and maintain a quality plan for the project |
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| Objective | Create a quality assurance plan for the project, including methods, budget, staff and schedule |
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| Applicability | This practice concerns all phases of the project, starting from the development |
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| Context | The practice applies to all projects. |
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| Addressed elements in SMM | 3.2. Quality assurance planning |
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| Actions | - Create a quality assurance plan
- Review the identified quality characteristics and test conditions for the project
- Based on literature and experience, identify adequate methods and approaches (reviews, tests, static/dynamic analysis) to be used
- Allocate necessary resources (budget, staff, schedule)
- Consult the plan with the team
- Maintain the quality assurance plan
- Assign responsibility for maintaining the quality assurance plan (Team Leader, by default)
- Periodically review the plan to address changes in requirements and needs
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| Risks | - The plan does not exist or is too generic
- Quality assurance activities are not properly planned and/or performed ad hoc
- The cost of quality assurance cannot be estimated accurately
- The plan is outdated or is not maintained
- The planned quality assurance activities do not correspond to the actual needs
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| Related practices | BP-A.3: Collect requirements BP-C.2: Identify product success criteria |
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