These past two months have not been slow.  I have been researching a lot about the physical side of puzzle.  I bought my girls puzzles for Christmas, I have bought puzzles as research, I have spent a lot of time reading.  Eventually I found that to be a toy “manufacturer” one needed to register with government as a “Small Batch Manufacturer.”

Talk about overkill.  Reading more, it seems that “toys” have their own ASTM and a warm place in the Code of Federal Regulations, or (CFRs).

So my progress has slowed to a halt.  I have actually started developing a ISO9000:2008 QMS system around the R&D it takes to develop a toy.  Thus far I have a Controlled Document Procedure, and a Document Template.  I used those to create a Quality Manual, which continues to evolve, as I find more information about the regulations of toys.  I am now at the process of creating a Requirements Document Template, and a whole Product Realization Procedure around that.

If all of this sounds like overkill, it might be, but I have brought enough hardware and software products to market, that I know it is much easier to follow a procedure than back into one.

Today I am at the point where I want to set up my issue tracking system.  To do this, I need to install a bug tracking system and set it up.  That will be another post, but I am progressing.  My original goal was to be developing by 2/1/2015, but I think I will have to push that to a 3/1 start date as the QMS is taking longer than I expected.

In my next post, I will explain how to setup an issue tracking system.