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2025 · 9 people · 1 week · Project Manager
One-week student project · CNAM-ENJMIN
My contribution
Organised brainstorming and maintained a balance between scope and creative intentions. Set up task tracking and kept information flowing between disciplines. Created tracking documents.
Producing the project
As the team’s project manager, I organised creative brainstorming with the aim of developing an original idea that everyone on the team could feel ownership of.
I facilitated communication between disciplines and within each discipline team. I drew up task lists with each discipline, including time estimates, then set up a physical Kanban board in the room.
I also displayed the game’s pillars, storyboards and user journey to keep shared reference points readily available and encourage engagement in such a short project.
Retrospective: a strong result, a process with room for improvement
I tried to supplement our tracking with a Gantt chart. I couldn’t represent the dependencies properly, and its day-by-day granularity was poorly suited to such a short project. I abandoned it on the third day.
Those dependencies nevertheless affected the schedule: to integrate obstacles and speed boosts, level design was waiting on programming, which was waiting on graphical assets. The late completion of the greybox delayed testing and brought two originally separate deliverables closer together.
Looking back, I can identify work that went unused and an art scope I didn’t monitor closely enough. Good team dynamics and daily check-ins weren’t enough to give us a reliable picture of progress. That is the main limitation I take away from how I organised the project.
Nevertheless, I’m proud of the result: the game manages to be fun and original while staying true to its strong creative intentions.