Quality Audits

Audits are necessary in project management. There are different types of audits that are involved in a project life cycle and one of them are quality audits. It is a structured and independent process that is used to determine if a project activity complies with the policies, procedures and processes of the organization or project. There are many reasons why organizations should observe this particular project management process. Below are the benefits of doing quality audits.

• It is used to identify the good and best practices being implemented in the organization or project.
• It is used to determine the non-conformists, shortcoming, and gaps of the project.
• It shares the good practices to the organization.
• Provides assistance positively to improve the implementation of different processes to raise the productivity of the team.
• Contributes to the repository of lessons learned of the organization.

Basically, the quality audits are aimed at correcting any deficiencies in the project that may result in the reduction of the cost of quality. It should be done randomly or at a specific schedule and should be conducted by either external or internal auditors.