Management Of Product Development Projects YB Game Company

Project Management is one of the branches of learning from the ManagementScience. With professional knowledge, tools, skills and all other ways to solve problems,deliver results, meet the requirement or even beyond the expectation in a certainconditions. Project Management was originally developed from the ancient times. BuiltPyramid in Egypt, Great Wall in China can all be regarded as a project. Later projectmanagement was adapted in national defense and military projects. This is why mostpeople would think Project Management was founded after World War II. However, itgot fast developed in the middle of20centuries. Critical Path Method (CPM) wasfounded in USA at this time. Today, along with the development of InformationTechnology, the competitive marketization and globalization, there are a lot newelements involved into Project Management. Also, it adapts itself into the new areas,such as Communication, Information Technology, Software Development, Financial,even Medical Technology, and made great efforts in these new areas.Nowadays, we can see Project Management plays an important part in everysoftware development. From the very beginning of setting up the project, to production,and launch, you can see Project Management everywhere. Not only it helps standardizethe process, but also improve the work efficiency in a great manner. The best part is it isnot limited the creation of game production, instead it helps avoid a lot un-necessarywaste from the man power, resources and time aspect. It also helps improve the qualityof games.This Paper starts from how Project Management works in game industry, based onthe real situations from the international game developer, UBISOFT, to research thewhole workflow and pipeline of game development, and the most common used gameproject management methodology, and then come to the conclusion of the specialty ofgame project management and issues should keep on mind. Through the study of themost common used project development mode such as Waterfall Mode, PrototypeMode, and Agile Development, based on the real case from UBISOFT, we will learn theworkflow of game development from the very beginning of project set up, integrate,scope management, cost, quality, resources, risk and progression management, etc.Through all of these process, we understand all the common issues will be encountered in the process of game project development, and adapt them in the real cases. Throughthis paper, it demonstrates the proper project management way of a game production,and shares the experience of game development with other game production teams, andhelp them to reinforce their sense of a game project management.