MS Project 2000

The only realistic tactic is to inject QA tasks in the early project phases. Performing a risk analysis and a requirements inspection (assuming that this is a software development project) don't really take much time, and they will save you gobs of labor over the course of the project. Anything you can do to prevent (or at least find and fix) defects as early as possible in the project life cycle will greatly shorten the construction and testing phases. If you can guide your organization into ascending to a higher level on the SEI CMM, your time and cost per Function Point will fall by a factor of ten or more.