Team HAM - Quality Control

Fire Drill - Quality Control....HANSEL.mp4

QUALITY CONTROL – by Hansel Doan

In this short video clip called “Fire Drill” from The Office, we can see that Dwight is setting things up to be hazardous. Now, the thought was nice because he wanted his coworkers to practice a fire drill. But—this is an incredibly dangerous and hazardous experiment that could have resulted in injuries and worse, death. He did not tell anybody about this experiment, nor did he show his coworkers and alert them of what was going to happen. Then, after everything was said and done and he “conducted” his experiment, most of his coworkers scrambled in panic and fear. Not only does this cause even worse situations, but this can also lead to confusion.

In this case, Dwight was the quality control gone bad, he did not stay within protocol of his company, he did not check with superiors, he did not communicate with coworkers, he lit things on fire, jammed doors, and lied to coworkers about a fire being in the other room without there actually being a fire in the other room; thus, Dwight caused quite a bit of panic and could have led to injury and even death, the worst-case scenario. Being able to control the quality of products and being able to make sure that things are communicated, and things are in control is a vital part of project management. Being able to control the quality of our product without having unexplained events or uncontrolled variables is an important part of the process of Project Management—even if things can be unexplainable or not thought of or planned. It’s still important to be able to control variables that have been already planned and thought of.

QUALITY CONTROL – by Andrew MacGregor

A lack of quality control is apparent in this scene from the 2015 film The Martian. In this scene, NASA is launching a critical supply rocket in the hopes of saving an astronaut named Mark Watney, who is currently stranded on Mars. Shortly after launch, the rocket experiences a fatal malfunction and is destroyed before leaving the atmosphere.

The reason for this critical failure can be attributed to an issue with quality control, which was apparent because of the lack of prior testing and inspection of the rocket. Quality inspections and assessments are essential for a successful project, especially one involving rocketry.

Massive corners were cut for the sake of timesaving, and this corner-cutting proved fatal to the project. Had the team taken measures for effective quality control, the project may not have failed.

QUALITY CONTROL - by Matthew Amorelli

I chose the despicable me video clip as it displays a good representation of quality control and why it is important

The quality control in this video is that Gru is trying to steal victors shrink ray and so that he can shrink the moon. His plan for doing this is by hiring the girls from the orphanage to pretend to be girl scouts as well as use cookie bots that Gru has built to be disguised as cookies and then he can remote control the robots to unlock the safe and steal victors shrink ray.

Only when this plan fails as towards the end where Gru’s robots got hacked and end up sealing up Gru in the safe where he would be up caught by victor.

How this fit into project management is that whenever a project is going to be executed or made, there has got to be a good level of quality by making sure that the quality is being tested upon. From this example there was not a good quality in the security of the robots as the cookie robots as the robots where able to be hacked.