IO Chooses Hansoft Tool For Project Management

Game development tool vendor Hansoft announced that Eidos-owned studio IO Interactive has integrated Hansoft's project management and QA tool with its development processes. Hansoft's software has been licensed by a number of development studios, such as Ubisoft Paris, Blue Fang, Artificial Mind and Movement, and Ninja Theory, for project management, bug tracking, workload coordination, and document management. Providing team members with a prioritized to-do list updated in real time, the tool is designed on principles of collaborative scheduling, task tracking, instant communication, Agile, QA / bug tracking, resource usage, portfolio and document management. Established in 1998 and based in Copenhagen, Denmark, IO Interactive employs over 200 people across four teams from more than 23 different countries. The developer's previous titles include the Hitman series, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, and Freedom Fighters. "As a studio, we have examined a number of solutions for how we build dynamic production teams, and central to this has been the choice of tools we use to empower our teams to meet their goals," says IO Interactive's development director Jonas Eneroth. "Hansoft has therefore become our tool of choice for managing key development tasks and is providing us both internally and externally with additional visibility and a framework for making more informed decisions."