After having seen project managers at work for years, I realized nobody stops us from using those concepts for our projects. <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/orc9.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) --> While a lot of it isn't applicable to us, there are a few good ideas. I suggest defining milestones so we have a better idea how far we are into a project and partitioning the game into modules for easier handling. E.g. a module would be the music, another module would be monster AI, a third would be town maps and so on.

I like the idea, sounds good, but how could we define acceptable milestones for each module? I mean, we'll need to define them properly, so when each of them is reached we can define which one will be worked next, etc. <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/orc2.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Milestones are not per module but project wide. There are only a few milestones, some of them already completed like the planning phase (concept is pretty much written). Further milestones are the first internal release that allows testing of all major features, the first limited beta for certain people, the first public beta and the official release.

I am not sure I understand what has to be done here. Should a module list be written, or something? We use TaskFreak to define TODOs for our project, can we use it for this purpose?

I agree with CW, we need to write a list of modules and use this list and TaskFreak to organize the current ToDo's, then we can begin marking which things are done for a milestone and determine how to follow the remaining stuff <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/orc9.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) -->.

TaskFreak has the following modules registered: [list:2fq7rtbg]Programming 2d Artwork Mapping Lump Management Documentation Sounds Other[/list:u:2fq7rtbg] TaskFreak was installed in our server supposedly to achieve what we are discussing here <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/orc4.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P -->, but I failed in giving the idea to the rest of the active team members, hehehe! <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/orc9.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) --> If you want, we can add more categories for the modules, the rest is just to get used to work with TaskFreak in combination with the forums, I guess.

I've made a preliminary list of modules and milestones, see the announcement post.

It looks good <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/orc2.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->, I think it pretty much covers what's needed for completing the game, and it's structured in a nice way too. We only need to add those to taskfreak and complete Milestone 2.