9 Best Practices in Software Management

1. Formal Risk Management
2. Agreement on Interfaces
3. Formal Inspections
4. Metric-Based Scheduling and management.
5. Binary Quality Gates at the Inch-Pebble Level.
6. Program-Wide Visibility of Progress versus Plan
7. Defect Tracking Against Quality Targets
8. Configuration Management
9. People-Aware Management accountability.

Source: Software Project Management by Barry W. Boehm