How to use the Compass
Two exercises
- The Compass contains two exercises:
- Exercise 1, Quality Vision, helps your team members define the quality vision and objectives for your project.
- Exercise 2, Quality Operation, helps your team members determine which strategies and actions to implement to realize the project vision and achieve your quality objectives.
Two stages
- Each exercise is done in two stages:
- An individual exercise, in which each member familiarizes themselves with the notions in the toolkit at their own pace, and develops a position.
- A group exercise, in which the team members gather to exchange ideas and make concerted choices for their project.
A few recommendations before you begin
Who should take part
- Identify the key members of the project team.
- Try to broaden horizons as much as possible to bring together diverse areas of expertise and points of view.
- Keep the people who truly want to invest in quality at the table, because they will then become allies throughout the project’s implementation.
What posture to adopt
- After the Compass exercises are completed, the project team develops a quality management plan: it must be able to be implemented, and in line with the conditions for project completion (e.g., the available human and financial resources and the expected timetable for completion).
- The Compass exercises thus require the right balance of visionary minds and critical thinkers.