Use checklists and conceptual models that help everyone see the big picture. Use corporate quality procedures ONLY for critical areas like version control and planning. Encourage each designer and developer to use the quality tools and techniques they know, and can apply quickly. Especially, employ only experience people, or outsource to mature companies. The results are a steady introduction of quality practices, first by individuals and then by others copying them.
Processes start to stabilise.
We have even found that our contractors are changing their practices to catch up with our requirements. In 1998 he was acting Conference Chair of the Electronics and Visual Arts conference in Gifu, Japan. He has provided consultancy and industrial training courses on quality management, risk management, and cost estimation to the aerospace and medical industries in the UK, Germany and Italy since 1995. He was also a quality consultant and software developer at International Computers Limited, UK, from 1980-1985, where he worked on operating and networking systems for mainframes and distributed systems. His academic qualifications include an MSc in Management Science from Imperial College, University of London in 1986, and is a member of the Association of MBA's.