Our team is currently in pre-production stage where we are constantly brainstorming and iterating game design. There are numerous documents, ideas to track and we are looking for the best practices to keep the team efficient in tracking tasks. So here is how we evolved our project managing tools.
We started with Google calendar for the first week when the only thing we had to do was to set up meeting times. It soon got too crowded with schedule blocks and we needed a board to show the tasks and issues. We decided to use Google Calendar for schedules and meetings.
On the second week, we tried out Trello to assign simple tasks for each other. It worked great until we needed more professional and personalized space for people to talk about issues.
That’s when we started to use Jira. It’s been good so far for project managing that focuses on tracking tasks. The only flaw is that it can not assign multiple people to one task(there are ways to go around it but…) and that you can not define specific due time.
Unless we are using the physical space and objects like post its and whiteboards, we need to find the best practices to provide the team with easy to communicate tool. The producer is trying to create a good channel for the team members to be able to do work right, faster and easier through digital devices.