Try GTD, aka David Allen's "Getting Things Done". Book: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280 http://www.amazon.com/

Try GTD, aka David Allen's "Getting Things Done". Book: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280 http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produc... Read the book, then get a tool like "Things" (for OSX) or try web software like http://vitalist.com/ http://vitalist.com/ that works cross platform and supports some group collaboration too. And about those software project management books -- the guy who evangelized software engineering for the past three decades just published an article saying he was wrong: http://bit.ly/pRrkd http://bit.ly/pRrkd (links to PDF).