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Current-state workbook

Building a quality management system begins with understanding the current state

Before deciding what quality management should do in your organization, it helps to see clearly how quality works today — not how it is supposed to work.

Guidance for use

You can begin alone. Start with what you believe is true, then test those beliefs against the work itself: the documents, the decisions, the handoffs, the reviews.

Along the way you will be encouraged to gather other perspectives. Quality lives across roles, so the picture gets sharper as more people contribute to it.

A note on what this is not

This is not an assessment. Nothing is scored, rated, or ranked, and no maturity level is produced. The output is your own written understanding of the current state.