Agiles 2009 - Agilidad en la Produccion de Videojuegos - Pauline Morrison Fell

Agile GameDevelopment
SCRUM in cross-disciplinedteams

Agenda
Aboutthecompany and theteams
ChallengeswithScrum
Experiences

About Three Melons
Three Melons is a leading GAME STUDIO in Latin America.
The studio houses top talent in its offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has a business development office in Los Angeles, California.

Rich Web & iPhone Social Games

Our games

Current and past clients/partners
4mm Games

Studio Profile and Team
Founded in 2005
Our team : +45
Artists
Developers
Gamedesigners
Producers
Testers
Management
Staff
Offices
Primary Office in Buenos Aires
US businessdevelopment office in Los Angeles
Foto + breve historia

Certified Agile Methodology

Our SCRUM

Our Processes

OurTeams
GameDesigner
ScrumMaster
2D, 3D Artists
Developers
Animators
ProductOwner
Testers
GraphicDesigners

OurTeams
1 teamper game
5 – 12 people
Co-located

TheChallenge
Dependenciesbetweenareas,
Completionestimates vs Time-boxedestimates,
“Cross-functional teams can lack this all-for-one and one-for-all benefit that comes more easily to teams of one discipline.”
Clinton Keith, agilegamedevelopment.com

Stories
Vertical slices of thegame,
Involveworkforeveryarea,
Are estimatedwithpoints,
Are doable in no more thanone sprint,
Gofortheminimumrequeriment and allowforpolishing in a followingiteration.

Workflow
Describes the interface betweenareas,
Reduces waste time and increasesproductivity,
Defined in Sprint 0,
Changesforeveryuniquegame,
Extendsthe formal gamedevelopmentprocess,
Includesassetrequirements, repositories, fileformats, etc,
Isessentialwhenoutsourcingpart of theproject.

Sprints and DailyScrum
Collectiveownership
Allareas are involved in everystory,
Team-leveldecisions,
Break-downintotasksis a waste of time and theteam loses focusonthestory,
Priorities are a must!

Communication and Tools
Over-communication,
Simple toolsthateverybodyunderstands,
Visible task-board,
Peopleco-locatedbyproject, notarea,
TRUST and Tolerance

Training
Cross-disciplinary training,
Teachbasicconceptstosavethe gap betweenareas,
Encourageinitiativesforself-training and cross-training amongteammembers.

Retrospectives
Sprint and Project Retrospectives,
Reviewworkflow,
Personal commitments,
Area and cross-arearevisionmeetings.

Pauline Morrison Fell
polin@threemelons.com

Questions
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