In the PMBOK Guide - Sixth Edition, a Quality Metrics is an output of process 8.1 Plan Quality Management.The quality metrics align with the Quality Management Plan and the Requirements documentation.
The template is fully editable with Excel and can be converted or changed to suit your project. The contents of the template is shown below.
The contents of the Quality Metrics template
Field
Field Description and Tips to Complete
Document information
Enter the:
- Project name
- Project reference
- Date prepared
- Version number
Reference numbers
Record the deliverable's reference IDs so that it can be easily tracked. It usually makes sense for this to be the:
- Activity or product ID
- WBS ID
- Requirement ID
Deliverable name
Give the name of the deliverable or product.
Quality metrics
Describe the specific and measurable metric(s) that will be used to measure the quality of the deliverable.
Measurement method
Describe how you will measure whether the deliverable has met the required quality.
Status
Give a status for the quality assessment. For example, test pending, test in progress, passed, failed.
Notes and actions
Note down any further actions. For example, next steps for deliverables that have failed to meet their quality metric(s).
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