Managing a team of web or software developers is no easy task. On a daily basis you are dealing with a unique set of personalities, interpretting and translating for the rest of the company, delivering product that by its nature will not be perfect, overcoming unproven and untested technologies, and usually working on multiple projects simultaneously that are under-scoped, mis-represented in requirements, and overdue. Here are my top 10 tips for creating a cohesive, productive, happy and efficient team and overcoming most frequent challenges.

Whether you are completely unfamiliar with Drupal, just getting started, or a pro theme/module developer, this collection of resources is the best you'll find on the web for Drupal help, guidance, and code.

Drupal is a very powerful, flexible, and widely popular Content Management System. Once you start using it regularly it's extremely likable and you may never want to use anything else. One important feature that makes Drupal so widely popular is that the development community is large, extremely active, and has built a very strong library of third-party plugin modules and themes that are consistently well-mantained, usually pretty easy to use and well documented, and there is lttle overlap in functionality.

Working with information architects and designers on Drupal CMS sites I’ve found they canhave a difficult time creating solutions that work for the development team implementing a Drupal CMS solution. Drupal-driven web sites absolutely need to be architected and designed from within the development parameters that Drupal allows, which tend to be more architecturally complex and more constraining from a graphic design perspective than normal. I hope the following tips are useful for IA’s, designers and developers alike.