Assessing and controlling the quality of a project end product: The earned quality method

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 88-97

  Paquin, Jean Paul ^a   Couillard, Jean ^b   Ferrand, Dominique J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clients' needs and expectations; Project management; Quality control; Quality of project end products

Indexed keywords

EID: 24744470252     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.820728     Document Type: Article

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