I started at looking for Architectural Engineering references and found an interesting paper from Fred Thorne on methodologies. I followed up some of his references related to Agile development which make interesting reading....

ASD3 teams.htm has some things that are generally applicable, I think, to effective team work.

Alistair Cockburn has also published an analysis of (software development) methodologies and tailoring, with some useful heuristics...
Methodologyspace.htm

...and a 100+ slide slide deck from a 1-day presentation he gives
asdtcgo1dy.ppt

Martin Fowler also has a good summary of agile methods...
newMethodology

and asks the provocative question "Is design dead?"...
DesignDead.html