1. Answer the below two questions in five hundred words:

a. What is TQM?

b. What must a Project Quality Plan address?

c. What does the cost of quality refer to?

d. What is Six Sigma?

e. Compare and contrast Quality Control and Quality Assurance.

f. Please research and provide a two-page, referenced discussion on the logic of identifying and eliminating risk for a project and be sure to include an explanation on how an organization comes to conclusions as to how much revenue and time to commit to this process.

2. Requirements for answering below a to d questions:

• Use of proper apa formatting and citations - If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited. A minimum of 3 -5 sources from scholarly articles or business periodicals is required.
• Include your best critical thinking and analysis to arrive at your justification.

a. What is Six Sigma - what does it mean mathematically?

b. What tools, techniques, and methods would you traditionally use in a Six Sigma facilitation? What do you envision as the roles and responsibilities for a Six Sigma centered project?

c. Provide 8 Six Sigma tools and explain what they are used for.

d. For this assignment, you have been assigned as the project manager for a project involving the installation of a new Internet security suite for your company. Complete the following tasks for your project:

• Provide a brief overview of your project.
• Describe positive and negative risks within your project.
• Discuss how each of the identified risks can affect the success or failure of the project and rank each risk in terms of impact to the project.
• Propose risk mitigation and management approaches for each identified risk.
• Describe the role policy plays in the planning and performing of risk management processes.