Hogwarts Legacy

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. This highly anticipated open-world, single-player, action RPG title from WB Games Avalanche in association with Portkey Games is coming out in 2022 on PC and consoles. Players will experience the mysteries and wonders of the wizarding world as a student of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Learn more about the game here.

Release Year: 2023 // Platforms: PS4, PS5, XBOX ONE, XBOX SERIES X, PC, Switch

Contributions as a Production Coordinator

I worked on Hogwarts Legacy as a production coordinator, assisting the VFX and Audio teams with their milestone and sprint planning, backlog maintenance, burndown chart analysis and documentation. In addition, I frequently collaborate with the Tutorial and Fast Travel teams on their production efforts.

VFX Team

  • Created and maintained the Kanban board of the entire VFX team leading to focused stand-up and production meetings as well as well-defined sprint goals for the FX artists
  • Planned sprint and milestone deliverables according to task priority resulting in a balanced spread of tasks over time
  • Maintained documentation, weekly reports and burndown charts to present progress over time to directors and producers
  • Drove meetings with mission producers and strike teams to get art direction clarifications, communicate chronological dependencies and promote a periodic review process

Audio Team

  • Reorganized the Kanban board and Jira task spread of the audio team ensuring cleaner Jira reporting capabilities
  • Aligned with the established process of ADR, scratch audio and EDL creation process to facilitate the team in sprint and milestone planning according to priority and timing locks
  • Updated documentation to accurately reflect the progress, planning and process of the audio team keeping other disciplines such as cinematics aware of different audio component statuses

Tutorial Team

  • Coordinated with the strike team lead to create and maintain the team's Jira tasks as well as updated documentation to correctly reflect the status information

Fast Travel Team

  • Assessed and itemized the task structure of a critical universal in-game component creating well-documented Jira tickets and aiding the assignees understand the dependencies accurately

Documentation and Reports

  • Created milestone reports based on the status of the missions, systems and components to provide stakeholders with an elaborate and accurate representation of the progress of the game
  • Documented weekly reports on the status of the entire game based on the information provided by production leads and strike team producers