At work, we use Scrum. An agile methodologie where you make one-week increments to your project. Each increment is build with enough user-stories to fill a week of development (look for velocity in this very blog).

Developers are obviously important in this process, as they build the project. While important, you could reduce their project management part to two workflows.

The main one is the Development workflow :

Development workflow :

The developer looks for the next Card he has to do in the Sprint Backlog. He puts the card in Implementation, and work on it. Once finished, he pushes the card in Implementation done (A tester is going to take it, but it does not really matter for the developer).

The second worflow is not meant only for developers, but rather for everyone on board :

“I got an idea” workflow

When someone has an idea, he writes it down in the Product Backlog. If possible, he should write it as a user-story, telling the story of someone achieving an action using the project.

As a user, I want to rank lists according to their importance because it will help me prioritize them for the next iteration. A user-story, from the viewpoint of a user