Oct 20, 2026 · 4 min · 7 segments
Management plans can be useful without becoming long reports. We look at setting out how quality will be checked and how the client will be involved, including reviews, decisions, and changes. The…
Okay, so start with the quality management plan.
Strip it right down.
You write down what you're going to do, and then you make sure you actually do what you said.
Write down the intended way of working, then hold yourself to it.
It almost sounds too simple, but that loop is the whole thing.
Let's make it concrete with something every office does, drafting a set of elevations.
A quality management plan for that might say the elevations are drawn from a plan that was drafted to a certain level, at a certain stage.
It might set the scope, the scale of the drawing, you know, even the fonts.
And then, crucially, you build in checkpoints.
You might write that there will be a cross-referencing check at 20% and another at 30 or 50%, whatever milestones make sense, to confirm the elevations actually line up with the plans and the sections.
So the plan isn't just a description of good work.
It's a description plus the moments where you stop and verify the work is staying coordinated.
Write it down, then check against it.
Okay, so start with the quality management plan.
Strip it right down.
You write down what you're going to do, and then you make sure you actually do what you said.
Write down the intended way of working, then hold yourself to it.
It almost sounds too simple, but that loop is the whole thing.
Let's make it concrete with something every office does, drafting a set of elevations.
A quality management plan for that might say the elevations are drawn from a plan that was drafted to a certain level, at a certain stage.
It might set the scope, the scale of the drawing, you know, even the fonts.
And then, crucially, you build in checkpoints.
You might write that there will be a cross-referencing check at 20% and another at 30 or 50%, whatever milestones make sense, to confirm the elevations actually line up with the plans and the sections.
So the plan isn't just a description of good work.
It's a description plus the moments where you stop and verify the work is staying coordinated.
Write it down, then check against it.
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