Software Best Practices

@Earl: I haven't heard of the Personal Software Process before, so I think I will check it out. I read a summary of it, and anything that will help to get good project estimates is something worth looking at. I am trying to have regular progress meetings with a demo of the work so far with the project...

I have experienced the "one person does it all" problem myself. I work with a group of coworkers at a large company but the organizational structure is very vertical. Each person is in charge of his own project with very little overlap. We are slowly trying to change the culture to get more...

Hello Earl, when I read Brian's question I also thought immediately about the PSP. I have worked quite a bit with it and although it is the most complete process for individual software practitioners I would like to caution Brian that PSP is very involved and in my opinion overkill in its full version...