Is quality improvement is planning? What other concepts will we learn and how do they relate to project management. You'll incorporate those criteria into a quality improvement plan, which works in tandem with the project plan?

Somewhat, but a quality improvement plan specifies how project quality is measured, evaluated, improved, and controlled. The goal here is to have a quality improvement plan that ensures the project’s quality criteria are met? This sounds very similar to how we execute, monitor, influence, and control a project?

As a matter of fact it is. While monitoring and controlling focus on the project’s scope, schedule, and cost, a quality improvement plan focuses on monitoring and controlling project quality. So, there's a form of repetition built into project planning?

Organizations invest a significant amount of resources in projects and the success of a project can be vital to the success of the organization itself. So having a quality improvement plan is seen as important to ensure a project's success.