Good coding practices can be achieved either through enforced standards or through more light-handed approaches.
Configuration management, when properly applied, makes programmers' jobs easier. This especially includes change control.
Good software estimation is a significant challenge. Keys to success are using multiple approaches, tightening down your estimates as you work your way into the project, and making use of data to create the estimates.
Measurement is a key to successful construction management. You can find ways to measure any aspect of a project that are better than not measuring it at all. Accurate measurement is a key to accurate scheduling, to quality control, and to improving your development process.
Programmers and managers are people, and they work best when treated as such.
