Game Software Project Scope And Schedule Management Research And Practice

Game Industry is one of the hottest rising industries in present China.R&D projects of the game software have inaccuracy project targets and scopes.The requirements of them change frequently. These projects need deal with many aspects and have several outputs in different aspects.The management for R&D projects of the game software is one of the most difficult project management.Because their unstable scope and changeable requirement always cause the project become longer and more expensive,which make the items fail easily.This thesis analyses and research project scope management and project time management of the game software development with the modem project management knowledge and theory. It applies OLAP to analyze the information data from the project work activities and adopt Scrum as the key manage technology for the developing of game software.From scientific, standardized and systematic, the thesis advances a project scope and time management plan.The R&D process of PSP game Crash 8 PSP is taken as practice.And the planning and program delivery for it are analyzed and described.Compare with normal project management methods, the plan of this thesis have stronger ability for getting the information of project fact, more accurately prejudgment for the project work activities,better adaptability and control for the changing of projects scope and requirements.Hope that the project scope and time manage plan for game software R&D in this thesis will provide the effective reference for managers,especially the project managers of game industry.