Clinton Keith is a Scrum coach and trainer for the video game development industry. Previously Clint worked for 15 years in the game development industry working on over a dozen titles. His website can be found at www.ClintonKeith.com.
Matt, Great points. Some agile practices, like test-driven development can take years to manifest measurable benefits. Others, like Scrum, can show gains quickly. For example, the practice of reporting impediments daily produces benefits if they are addressed. Agile is really just a set of four values and twelve principles outlined ...
Good article Lot's of excellent common sense. I liked the focus on the pillars of workflow and iteration speed. Good luck on learning Japanese I tried, but failed. The shame is great.
James, Your article does a great job of describing what a good number of game teams encounter using Scrum. Usually the problem is one or more of the following: - The sprint goal is specified too rigidly - The team does not have the freedom, or the understanding of the ...
To be fair, long periods of crunch were not introduced by Rockstar or current management. I was there Angel Studios for eight years and left just before the acquisition. Death-marches, like the one we went through to get Midnight Club out for the launch of the PS2, pushed some to ...
