the mythical man-month
A few weeks ago, Marc (thanks mate) recommend and sent me the book The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks in a PDF file, but as I am a compulsive online buyer and I love the smell of new books I decided to buy it.
Fred Brooks (IBM, project manager of OS/360) wrote this book about software project management in 1975 (I have the anniversary edition, 1995) and this is what has surprised me more when reading it, even though the book was first written more than 30 years ago, project managers (myself) are having the same problems he had.
The tendency for managers to repeat such errors in project development led Brooks to quip that his book is called “The Bible of Software Engineering” because “everybody reads it but nobody does anything about it!”
Promise, I’ll do!! 
If you need to manage a project, tools like Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (source control software) Goplan (online project management and collaboration), google apps (Web app for communication and collaboration) and many more can make your life a bit easier but for sure won’t prevent you from more than one headache, promise.
October 8th, 2008 1:50 pm
I agree that the project managers face more or less same problems today as in the past. but the difference is that today there are so many tools which makes doing business easier. I love online project management and collaboration tools. I have tried Goplan previously, but since I have started working in Seavus I started to use ProjectOffice.net as well.
It offers essential functionalities for managing projects online and what is more, through the really effective issue tracking system and enterprise organised wikis it offers extended knowledge repository. I personally think that if people behind the development of ProjectOffice.net continues improving this application it will become maybe the best online tool for managing projects as well as extended collaboration on projects and tasks.
I strongly suggest you to take a look at it, since according to my personal opinion it has a really bright future.