Final Fantasy XIV examines how its project managers work on the game behind the scenes

If you don’t know what project managers do, you might not understand why Final Fantasy XIV what they need or what they do every day. But then you realize all the work that’s constantly going on behind the scenes and things become clearer. Someone needs to keep track of where each team is in terms of developing new combat content, what’s going on with the new models and animations, how the music is progressing, and so on. There are a lot of moving parts, and Backstage Investigations’ latest article on the official website looks at exactly what project managers Tsukasa Sato and Yu Nagai are doing.

The piece highlights the different speeds at which different projects work; For example, patch 6.3 graphics were being worked on even before patch 6.2 was released. Of course, not everything runs smoothly and sometimes things have to be delayed or expedited due to schedules and availability. There’s a lot of components to juggle to make sure everything is ready when it needs to be ready and if you’re curious about how project management works even if you’re not FFXIV Fan, you should check out the full play.

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