Laatutiimi
Laatutiimi is a Finnish term for a team dedicated to quality within an organization. The concept denotes a cross-functional group responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining quality practices to ensure products or services meet specified requirements and customer expectations. The term combines laatu (quality) and tiimi (team) and is widely used in Finnish industry, IT, and public sector contexts to describe formal or semi-formal quality assurance units.
A typical laatutiimi includes roles such as quality manager, process owners, QA analysts, testers, documentation specialists,
Common methods used by laatutiimit include PDCA (plan–do–check–act), root cause analysis, Ishikawa diagrams, FMEA, control charts,
In practice, laatutiimi structures vary; some organizations maintain a central QA department, while others embed quality