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How About Games? Extending Agile to Different Environments Francisco Trindade ThoughtWorks UK TW Geek Night Manchester – 22 nd Jan 2009

How Did I Get Here? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Is the game industry so different?

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[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],But does it apply to everything?

Postmortems ,[object Object],“ The most severe blow suffered by all teams was from accepting an unrealistic schedule . Despite endemic problems, . . . the concept that was floated at the time was that it would be possible to adhere to the original schedule if everyone simply worked around the clock . Foolish and naıve, we bought it, and started pushing .”

How? Read Postmortems Analyzed Data Searched for problems

Problems Occurrence ,[object Object],No All the main problems of the software industry are also found in the game industry

How? Read Postmortems Analyzed Data Searched for Best Practices

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But how can we handle the different aspects? “ We cannot run selenium tests in a game…”

Well… Agile != Selenium Pair Programming Stand-ups Retrospectives

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And this is already being discovered and used…

[object Object],[object Object],Bill Schofield Embracing Fun: Why Extreme Programming is Great for Game Development (http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070301/schofield_01.shtml)

[object Object],[object Object],Bliksem Tobey A Year Of Agile Development http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18162

[object Object],[object Object],Paul Miller Top 10 Pitfalls Using Scrum Methodology for Video Game Development http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3724/top_10_pitfalls_using_scrum_.php

Well… Agile == making better games more consistently more frequently with less bugs and less staff turnover

Questions? Thanks! thoughtworks.co.uk franktrindade.com

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