Organization and Human Factors

I occasionally fantasize about an “ideal math curriculum” for Physics graduate students, based on my experience, in school and out. Which topics make sense, which don’t, what should count as reasonably expected knowledge, what is actually useful?

There are also some textbooks, several of which having been published after I left school, that I would like to use (actually: like to have used) in the appropriate classes.

I have never seen a software project in which the limiting factor was the speed with which programmers could type.

I was recently reminded of the minimal set of project management artifacts and activities that are, in one way or another, simply indispensable.

None of this is news: all of this has been well established for at least 25 years (a quarter-century!), so I was surprised that apparently it is still not common knowledge or practice — at least not as common as one would wish for.