Audit a cup or coffee?

Audit  a cup or coffee?
Fundamental drivers of a project success like Budget, Schedule and Quality should be kept in mind during auditing a project.
While Budget is not a direct audit element, Schedule and Quality are.  
If   Y = Success of project
X = combination of   ‘x’s like Budget, Quality and Schedule
Y = F (Budget, Quality, Schedule)
While [...]

Role of External Auditors

Role of External QMS Auditors 
There are number of Auditing agencies and firms that are engaged in performing third party audits on various objectives like certification audit, system readiness audit and Gap Audit etc.
Whatever be the name of the audit process, the objective should always be a value addition to the QMS system being audited. While it is great to have auditing [...]

Cause&Effect Diagram-Product Development

Internal (Quality) Audits suggestions

Have the Internal Auditors trained preferably by external training agencies
Prepare a schedule of Internal Audit not exceeding 5 days Duration
Circulate the schedule to All the Auditors, Auditees and respective managers
Have an opening meeting between Auditors [...]

Internal Vs External Audits

 

Internal Audits
External Audits

First Party Audits
Third Party Audits

Aimed at Process Maturity
Earning accreditation from Audit agencies

Scopes 100% coverage
Sampling audits on few projects

Findings reported on all life cycles and phases
Focused on few selected areas

Auditors have good grip of the project, organization and customers and hence findings can prove very beneficial in improving process maturity
Auditors [...]