Tools for Enhancing the Quality of Problematic Design Deliverables
Publication No
IR320-2
Type
Excel spreadsheet
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2016
Pages
123
Research Team
RT-320
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Abstract
Construction Industry Institute (CII) organized Research Team 320 (RT-320) to pursue this research. The research team employed a bottom-up, priority-driven approach to understanding design quality defects, impacts, causes, and leading and lagging indicators. The team began by identifying the 11 most problematic deliverables and the 73 most common and significant defects associated with these deliverables. The research team then identified 349 causal factors, which lead to the identification of 118 leading and 23 lagging metrics. With additional insight from published literature and corporate practices, the team identified 266 completeness checklist items associated with the 11 deliverables. Then, RT-320 developed two implementation tools: the Design Deliverable Quality Assessment (DDQA) tool, and the Completeness of Design Deliverable Checklist (CDDC) tool. All research products were validated with feedback from tool demonstrations and external reviewers.
Chapter 1 of this document provides an overview of research objectives, methodology, and the team members’ background information. Chapter 2 describes major findings of this research, including problematic deliverables, defects, causal factors, leading/ lagging metrics, and completeness checklist items. Chapter 3 and 4 present the objectives for the two implementation tools, and associated tool highlights, inputs, and outputs. Chapter 5 defines the roles and responsibilities of potential users and provides guidance for the timing of tool application to evaluate the completeness of deliverables. Chapter 6 summarizes the learnings from this research and future recommendations for its implementation. The appendices provide details of research findings and developments.
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Knowledge Area
Best Practice
Project Phase
Project Function
Industry Group
Research Topic
Definition and Measurement of Engineering/Design Deliverable Quality
Keywords
Problematic deliverables,
Deliverable completeness,
Defect analysis,
Engineering deliverable quality,
Deliverable correctness,
Defect impacts,
Design deliverable quality,
Deliverable timeliness,
Defect causal factor,
Engineering quality,
Deliverable defects,
Leading indicators,
Design quality,
Engineering/Design defects,
Lagging indicators,
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