HacknPlan

HacknPlan is a project management application for game development, that brings game design and task management together to provide a better workflow for game development teams. Although it does not follow a specific one, the tool heavily inspired by agile methodologies. This is the reason why the application revolves around the kanban board as the main tool to track the progress of your tasks. Defining meaningful, small and well-defined tasks from your functional requirements, and then putting them on our board, will help you easily check the status of the project and keep everything under control. However, if we think of a project with the scope of a game, having everything in just one board would become a mess to manage. We believe the board should contain a limited amount of tasks in order to provide clarity, otherwise, the excess of information could make you lose sight of what is important and, even worse, commit mistakes. HacknPlan is designed to encourage incremental development as a solution to this problem: we divide the work in Milestones (or iterations) that contain a limited amount of work to be accomplished within a period of time. Ideally, the outcome of every milestone would be a playable version of your game. So, basically, our project is divided into small tasks and those tasks are grouped into milestones to be accomplished iteratively over time. At the same time, those tasks can be assigned to members of the team, so you can easily see who is working on what.