At 05:16 PM 5/16/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello List,
>
>The question I have is about project management, and I realize that most
>people here are engineers; however, I'm sure that most of you worked on a
>project involving a team of people, and I would appreciate any insights you
>can provide.

For techniques, I've found the Harvard Business School Project
Management Manual useful. It's only about 40 pages and about 10 years old,
but has a number of simple, effective approaches such as the Post-It=99 not=
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task
ownership technique that can work well with large to smaller (say 10 people)
teams.  HBS Publication: 9-697-034

Once you get much smaller than that, it's more like time management.
Context switch time becomes very important, blocking of time to improve
efficiency, and that sort of thing.

There are plenty of fat books that cover project management, many of them
from the professional manager's pov, rather than from the typical techie pov
where all work not actually producing a design or cranking out code is
considered wasted. ;-)

As far as letting a program juggle priorities, I doubt it's possible, if
your days are anything like mine.

Best regards,

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