Once development begins, the development team must be engaged, effective and efficient. Drawing on project experience from small companies to large enterprises, non-profits to multi-national corporations, we will examine some tools and habits that can help:

• Keep your project on time and on budget.
• Define a project in manageable chunks.
• Give your developers a sense of project ownership.
• Streamline the decision-making process.
• Expand your pool of project resources.
• Develop new skills for team members.
• Help prevent developer burnout.
• Lead distributed teams.

While the session is not explicitly about project management, we will cover strategies for structuring projects, defining and assigning tasks and communicating goals. We will deliberately focus attention on:

• The "forgotten" members of a Drupal project team.
• Avoiding distractions that can derail the team.
• Using scrum to stay on target.
• Taming scope creep.
• Accurately estimating project tasks.

The session is intended as a practical discussion targeted for two basic audiences:

• Developers new to project and team management.
• Project managers new to Drupal.