Advanced Course 5: Quality Management for Planners


Approximate Duration: 2.25 hours

Quality Management for Planners


Welcome to Quality Management for Planners, a specialized course designed for planning professionals working in industrial, construction, and maintenance environments.

This program consists of four core components that progressively build your quality management capabilities as a planner:

  1. Fundamentals of Quality Management: This lesson will introduce you to the core concepts of Quality Management Systems, including the underlying model, organization structure, and the regulatory framework and industry standards.

  1. Quality Assurance and Quality Control: This lesson begins by defining quality assurance, quality control, and their key differences. You will learn about quality assurance methodologies for planning, quality control implementation in execution, and the cost implications of quality management approaches.

  1. Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs): This lesson introduces you to Inspection and Test Plan fundamentals and applications.  You will learn about creating effective ITPs for various disciplines, implementing ITPs in planning and execution, and managing ITP documentation and verification.

  1. The Planner's Role in Quality Management: This final lesson clarifies your role in quality management. You will learn how to embed quality into work packages, plan resources effectively for quality assurance, document quality processes, communicate quality standards, and overcome challenges related to quality in planning.


Quality management excellence develops through the application of sound principles in diverse situations. By connecting course concepts to your specific planning context, you will develop skills that enhance your work package quality immediately while building capabilities that serve you throughout your planning career.



When you are ready to begin, click on the first lesson below or purchase with the green button above.

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