Any books, or website to suggest on how to best juggle multi projects and handel them effectively?
I found that many software engineering and many system engineering development methods can be adapted to other types of projects management . Although it designed for software development, the Personal Software Process and the Team Software Process are approaches to improving software with concepts which can be applied to general projects.
Sometimes it pays to be lazy. One of the problems I seen is that people will have slack time (times between projects) where they don’t have anything to do, and rather than appear lazy that will take on projects that they can not complete in the time available. that why I recommend that you
1. Don’t try and do too much. Avoid overcommitment
2. Don’t try and do other people’s job. Stay focused on your work.
3. Plan ahead.
a. Make sure you will have the resources when you need them
b. Set priorities. Make sure you know what REALLY needs to be done. Define your requirements and the required level of performance (QA) know what the job is before you start.
5. Define delieverable, What MUST you deliever at the end of the project.
6. Deliever early and often. If you can not deliever early, demo early. Involve you customer (or boss) in the development project, keep them aware of what going on
7. Track changes, and issues yet to be addressed in your project.
8. A workable solution on time is better than the best solution too late.