I found this excellent article on project management from the developer’s point of view:
(Originally written by Brandon Ching)

Today’s post is on something a bit different but still very much relevant in the web development world: project management. Now, I’m not all that old and I haven’t been a web developer for all that long (about 6 years in total, 3 actually getting paid but I have had the opportunity of working for a medium-sized media company with a development team of about 25 developers, a small 5-6 person development company (3 developers), and as an independent contractor.

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Have you ever tried using Microsoft Visio for creating database diagrams? Im using it at the moment for a large web application project and I’ve got to say, I hope there’s a better solution out there. I understand that Visio is design for lots of different uses and not just database diagrams, but it really is difficult to get a useful database diagram out of the software.
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I have been looking into the Subversion system this weekend. I had never used it myself but have recently been looking for a solution to the problem of collaberation on website projects (eg. two people making a change to a website, one overwriting the changes of the other… oh my goodness thats annoying). Since looking into Subversion, I have installed it on my internal server (Windows SBS 2003) using http://svn1clicksetup.tigris.org and am using TortoiseSVN as the client… I am impressed! I have moved some of my projects over to Subversion and plan to add all new projects from now on. Read on for the repository layout article.

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