• Ensure project goals and objectives are communicated to the entire team, buy-in established, and ownership identified.
• Sell the benefits of process quality and continuous improvement at an individual level.
• Implement quality in a Crawl, Walk, Run approach tailoring it to your particular situation.
• Make you improvements measurable and measure them.
• Recognize efforts and reward accomplishments.
• Regular project meetings including requirement reviews.
• Expedite not eliminate.

Raw notes from round table discussion:

• Standard forms are needed to ensure those requiring the information get everything they need and in a consistent manner no matter where if comes from.
• Upper management support to keep things moving.
• Work for small successes and then advertise them visibly.
• Communication, communication, communication.
• Utilize postmortems to gather what went well not just what can be improved. Ensure the strengths are continued and the areas of improvement are addressed for next time.
• Figure out how to measure your efforts. Change for change sake has no ROI and only frustrates those involved.
• It is important to have a change management process and use it to help manage the scope of any project. To do so you must also ensure there is a point that you can start managing change from! Get approval and manage change.
• Regular project meetings with requirement reviews
• Release coordination – don’t forget there is more to a release than just the "development" effort (e.g. user doc, operational doc, training, and communiqué’s). It all has to come together to ensure a quality release.
• Project managers know your role. We found the role of project manager can be defined differently at different places. Be sure you clarify your responsibilities as the project manager and that you have the authority to fulfill these responsibilities.