Who is missing from this Project?

What do you think went wrong? Whose mistake it is that the road needs patch work just after the first raining season?

Is it the contractor (developer)?

Is it the supervisor (project manager)?

Is the lack of cost (budget)?

Is it the crunched time line?

OR

Is it just corruption during the process?

The answer is in the root of the cause. The contractor has been provided some material to construct the road. The supplier provided the material. The supervisor was split between selecting right time, right amount under budget, right people for the job, monitoring the progress of each aspect of project, calculating risk and many more things but maybe he missed to choose the right material to build the road or may be the material was of good quality but the proportion wasn't right.

This is not particularly supervisor’s job to pick the right quality product and to check if the mix is correct for this product and nether it is the job of supplier. Constructor defiantly found it right or may be just missed at some point while building. Than whose job it is and is it the person who was missing from the process which made this blunder.

The project was delivered well within time and saved cost as well but the overall quality of the project is not up to the mark. One of the reasons for it is that the key element “Quality Analyst” was missing out from the team.

A quality analyst provides a check at every stage of the process, starting from choosing the right material, proportion selected for the product, at the start of the construction process, at the middle of it and at the end of it. This might add a bit more of cost but the question is not that, the real question is can you afford to pay later for fixes or do you want to avoid the fixes in future and make it right the first time.

The market today understands the need of quality analyst but still few projects lack in it. Few just lack to give importance to it.

The question is: do you want the road to work till the rains or for a longer time after the rains?