/work/project-a/database  -  store databases in here
/work/project-a/libs      -  modules, libraries
/work/project-a/temp
/work/project-a/backups   -  archives of previous working versions
/work/project-a/webroot   -  Web folder starts here
/work/project-a/utils     -  command line utils I may need
/work/snippets            -  useful code snippets to save and reuse.