Project Management is really important. We all have to do it to some extent in our everyday lives, but especially when developing games. We must think carefully about the work needed, and then figure out the most practicable way to pursue it. Project Management is, essentially, about planning your time, workload and resources to achieve success optimally. The idea is to identify all the work needed, and then to divide it into a sequence of manageable chunks. The following terms and phrases emerge with the Project Management process.
Project Management begins by careful analysis of the design. This involves examining the game design document (a clear statement of the game) and determining how, when properly conceived, it can be implemented optimally. Previous chapters outlined the design for Dead Keys, and from this, we can extrapolate various levels of work. Try thinking about these, and then write them down using a tree structure....