Making Games is Hard.

We can help.

We provide customized project management solutions.

> Production Framework of activities across PEOPLE, PRODUCT, and PROCESS.

> Production Gates mapped to your project's unique development phases.

> Launch your product on time, on quality, on budget.

Let us be your guide. Contact us today.

Providing Tailored Project Management Solutions for Games and Interactive Media

We Provide Customized Production Frameworks

We have experience building customized game development frameworks for each project's unique characteristics, including their project development phases, production gates, and release milestones along with their required deliverables, checklists, and acceptance criteria.

We Deliver Project-Level Production Methodologies

Each project's production methods are tailored for its own specific opportunities & challenges: release roadmaps, delivery plans, feature lists, product backlog, definitions-of-done, first-party compliance, risks & mitigations.

We Tailor Team-Level Production Processes

The proper implementation of team-level processes drives the project toward its goals: team organization & structure, capacity tracking, sprints & retrospectives, user story decomposition, software review calendars, task estimation, tracking & reporting, onboarding & training.

We Provide Hands-On Project Management Training & Support

Phase Forward Solutions provides training, support, and hands-on project management: running workshops, sprint plannings, work-breakdown structures, user story mapping, release planning roadmaps, feature list compilations, definitions-of-done, etc.

Empowering Your Interactive Media Projects

Our Approach

We work with you to understand your vision, business aspirations and current challenges in order to assess and implement production methodologies to help you meet your objectives.

• Discuss and map out your business goals, constraints, timelines, targets, and KPIs for success.

• Collaborate with your stakeholders and teams to analyze the current production processes, tools, team structures, risks & issues; categorize what’s working, what’s not, and formulate a prioritized list of action items.

• Work with leadership and team members to propose a tailored production framework for success, including the high-level aspects (phases & gates production roadmap + milestone acceptance criteria) to the low-level processes (backlog, definitions-of-done, task distribution & tracking, reporting) to team re-org (feature teams vs strike teams vs service teams), and anything in between.

• Support where needed: run workshops, facilitate planning sessions, and provide training curriculums to help with process improvements and integration.

Our Production Framework

• Production Phases: Development is divided vertically according to your project's development phases.

  As an example:

  • Research & Exploration

  • Concept Development

  • Pre-Production

  • Production

  • Finaling

  • Live Operations

• 3 swim-lanes of activities: Running in parallel throughout your project's Production Phases:

  • PEOPLE

  • PRODUCT

  • PROCESS

• Production Gate per Phase: At the conclusion of each Phase is a Production Gate for moving forward:

  • The swim-lane activities are aligned to each Production Gate's requirements