Project Management

📄️ Adding a user as an Observer (or other role)

Log into your codecks account.

📄️ Adding Cards

Cards are the core mechanic of Kanban boards.

Decks store the context of what you are trying to do. This could be a list of to do items, completed items or items classed by their requirements such as art, gameplay, players, enemies, graphics, levels, etc.

📄️ Adding Milestone Data

Milestones are a way that you can set dates that tasks have to be completed by.

📄️ Checklists, lists and calendars

In this section we will use the example from the previous lesson where we created a number of tasks and assigned times and values to them.

📄️ Creating an account

Go to codecks.io and click create your account

📄️ Estimations and Scheduling

Plan out your project. Create a Gantt chart.

📄️ Factor's outside one's own control

Things happen that you cannot predict. A global pandemic, earthquake, computer hard drive crashing, virus, travel, new game coming out.

📄️ Financial

If you need to purchase equipment or use specialist equipment there can be financial costs. This could include covering food for a team when you work on a weekend. Providing rewards / gifts to testers. The legal impact of using copyrighted material and being sued for copyright infringement.

📄️ Incorrect Functionality

If you don't conduct quality analysis at the empathise and define stages of the design thinking process you are likely to have incorrect functionality in your project.

📄️ Kanban Boards - Github / Trello / Codecks

Kanban boards are a way of tracking tasks and goals in a project.

📄️ Project Planning and Management

In this section you will find resources related to project planning, inquiry, proposals, requirements analysis, iterative development, trialing and testing along with tools to assist in this process.

📄️ Scope Creep

Projects can get out of hand easily.

📄️ Setting up dependencies, allocating times and resources to tasks

Make sure that you have a project set up before starting this section.

📄️ Setting Up Tasks

A Gantt chart is a project management tool that allows you to create tasks and assign resources such as people and equipment to them. This allows for a critical path to be calculated. If tasks on the critical path are delayed the entire project will be delayed. The critical path identifies which tasks are dependent on other tasks being completed.