Presentation for Skýrslutæknifélagið - The Icelandic Society for Information Processing on 12th of November 2009.

1. Game Development in a Distributed Environment Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson Betware, Reykjavik University, Icelandic Gaming Industry

3. Revenues

4. Betware DK Bröndby Denmark Head Quarters Betware Reykjavík Betware Sp. z o.o. Warsaw Poland Certus Odense Denmark Betware Solutions CA Kamloops, BC Betware Madrid Spain Betware currently has 101 employees worldwide

6. 1995 Internet disruption

8. 8 Lottery Sales Lottery Sales % Change Year on Year 2003-2008

9. The traditional products are declining Photo by: OlsenWeb http://www.flickr.com/photos/olsenweb/

10. For new games, New Media is mainstream

11. Key Observation People will have more computing poweron their person whereever they go

12. Key Observation People will have constant connectivity

13. Key Observation Price is ready for mass-adoption

14. Key Observation People will use multiple devices

15. Technology Adaption Early Adaptors Mass Market Laggards Super Smart Phones Internet TV stations E-book Readers Netbooks

16. The Three Screens Strategy Big Screen TV, Video Games Many Persons Local Entertainment Personal Screen Desktop, Laptop, Single Person Some Portability Work Small Screen Phones, Netbooks, eReaders Single Person Easy portability Mobility

17. What do Consumers Want?

18. What do Consumers Want?

19. What do Consumers Want?

20. Entertainment Social

22. In 2006 Betware decided to introduce Agile development methods Image from: http://flatlands.ecclectica.ca/team.htm

23. Today there are 12 teamsin our 6 locations

24. Question: How do you mange distributed teams? Answer: Don’t distribute your teams

25. All the tools needed: IP phone system, Office Communicator, TeamViewer, Confluence Wiki, JIRA, GreenHopper…

26. “Pubs and Planes”

27. Project Silos – Component TeamsScrum-of-scrums

28. “Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it” Conway’s Law