This was posted in the sports forum as well...
I just secured an interview for 2OLD2PLAY with a person that was/ is a development manger for the Madden Series. Here are some of the things he does.
"I'm Development Manager at the Tiburon Studio of EA in sunny Maitland, Florida. My team for the '07 product worked on the XBox360 version of Madden, and we are currently working on getting the PS3 version ready for ship. My team (or Pod as we call it) consisted of 7 developers and 2 producers. My pod was mainly responsible for:
* Franchise Mode Enhancements