1. I am currently in the first stage of working on a college-project, [in] which ... I would like to have a focus on the role of the game producer and his involvement throughout each stage of development.
2. I got '"The game producers handbook" by Dan Irish' from a friend...
3. but ... this book ... lacks detail in describing the initial stages of development itself (especially the ones in which the producer is not majorly involved).
4. My question towards you would therefore be if you could recommend a book which outlines the different stages of development in fair detail...
5. I would like to use this forum to have an additional source of information.
6. Sry for posting this here and in another category but I didn't know where it would be most suitable [/quote]
1. Then you should read FAQ 42 (scroll up and click the Breaking In FAQs link).
2. What a cheapskate! Shoulda bought your own copy.
3. Read FAQ 10 for more about the process. But there IS NO STAGE when the producer is not majorly involved. Many times, the producer is the first person on the project. And always the last.
4. There's Heather Chandler's book (I wrote the forward) and there's Introduction to Product Development (I wrote the chapter on Producing). See FAQ 8 for more books. If FAQ 8 isn't listed in this forum's FAQs, it's on my site (which is where most of the FAQs reside).
5. This forum doesn't exist to help students write class essays. It exists to help students understand how to get careers in the game industry, and to help them prepare for those careers.
6. I closed the post you wrote in that other forum, since you were not offering to write an article for GameDev.net and you were not asking any of the experts on GameDev to write an article on a particular topic.

P.S. The black-and-white character I use as my avatar is named Spike. Let's talk who used the name first!