  Application users have now been experiencing for about a year with the
standardized resource brokering services provided by the 'workload management'
package of the EU DataGrid project (WP1). Understanding, shaping and pushing
the limits of the system has provided valuable feedback on both its design and
implementation. A digest of the lessons, and "better practices", that were
learned, and that were applied towards the second major release of the
software, is given.
