Practicing Proper Project Management Process

[CHIEFARCHITECT]

Once the "creative" prototyping is completed and the product or service is launched, how many of you begin to practice "project management" principles? ... Do you ever feel the need to manage the development of the project efficiently?

[samb]

we set milestones. but we don't worry about methodology.

we do feel the need to manage development efficiently. again, we're small, so we sketch the future state almost constantly. we keep the burning stuff in our brains all the time. the less important stuff either comes up again or it doesn't. most of the time it doesn't.

[CHIEFARCHITECT]

Good viewpoint. As the PM/Marketing guy of a wireless startup, am working with a small product team. Always find it to be challenging to remind the team to focus on developing a product for the needs of the marketplace not what they think they like. Seen too many teams lose track of what they are doing. In most cases, it is their project manager that fails to build a Tangible Vision that the team collaboratively connect to..