Apr

Clinton Keith shares his insight today, based on the rule of the publisher why we need either Smaller teams of Longer Dev cycles to produce more great hits.  In every publishers portfolio there is a healthy mix between proven franchises and newer riskier IP’s and with each type of project comes a different approach to how you mitigate the risk.

Mr. Keith is also putting on a 2 day Scrum Master seminar in Boston on May the 3rd and 4th.  For more information simply click on the banner at the top of our home page.

Title: “A Case for Smaller teams and Longer Development Cycles“ – Original Article

Written by: Clinton Keith(www.clintonkeith.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on April 20th, 2009

Mar

Clinton Keith is finishing up a big string of articles with this 4 piece compilation that starts with an important piece on Agile not being a silver bullet.  In this he dismisses the myth that Agile is the end all and be all to solve your problems and ensure your studio produces the next big hit.  In the article he goes over some of the other important aspects of what it takes to make a hit and how even studios that are produces hit games can benefit from agile.

Mr. Keith is also putting on a 2 day seminar at GDC this year(March 23 and 24th) and we definitely recommend you head over to http://www.clintonkeith.com/next-public-course for more info!

Title A: “No Silver Bullet“ – Original Article

Title B: “Agile Stability“ – Original Article

Title C: “Syncronized Sprint Focus Tests“ – Original Article

Title D: “Team Definitions Redux“ – Original Article

Written by: Clinton Keith(www.clintonkeith.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on March 17th, 2009

Mar

Clinton Keith is back once again with more insight on the workings of scrum and lean development in a Game Studio setting.  Today we look at how the role of QA or game testers needs to change in an agile development environment.  How the status quo for what we think of as a tester needs to go out the window and be replaced with that which can accommodate an iterative development, keeping the players interests in mind throughout the entire project.

Mr. Keith is also putting on a 2 day seminar at GDC this year(March 23 and 24th) and we definitely recommend you head over to http://www.clintonkeith.com/next-public-course for more info!

Title: “Beyond Scrum – Lean and Kanban for Game Developers“ – Original Article

Written by: Clinton Keith(www.clintonkeith.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on January 19th, 2009

Feb

In the funnest article I have read to date Clinton Keith and Mark Cohn have written a great tongue in cheek piece about how to fail with agile.  Of course the article is meant as a road map on how to avoid failure with agile and is an excellent one at that.  An absolute must listen for any new team adopting the methodology

Mr. Keith is also putting on a 2 day seminar at GDC this year(March 23 and 24th) and we definitely recommend you head over to http://www.clintonkeith.com/next-public-course for more info!

Title: “How to fail at Agile“

Written by: Clinton Keith(www.clintonkeith.com)and Mark Cohn

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on February 20th, 2009

Jan

In one of his most indepth articles that is a MUST READ for any manager or producer,Clinton Keith goes in depth detailing methodologies used in the manufacturing sector that have allowed companies like Toyota to become super powers in their market place.  He related these to the Games Industry and goes over his experience using Lean and Kanban to reduce level production times by a whopping 56%!!

Mr. Keith is also putting on a 2 day seminar at GDC this year(March 23 and 24th) and we definitely recommend you head over to http://www.clintonkeith.com/next-public-course for more info!

Title: “Beyond Scrum – Lean and Kanban for Game Developers“ – Original Article

Written by: Clinton Keith(www.clintonkeith.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on January 19th, 2009

Jan

Clinton Keith brings us another great piece on Agile Game Development, as well as answering some of the most common questions(or dispelling myths) that come up in regards to Agile and Scrum. 

Mr. Keith is also putting on a 2 day seminar at GDC this year(March 23 and 24th) and we definitely recommend you head over to http://www.clintonkeith.com/next-public-course for more info!

*NOTE* For some reason WordPress put Audio Article #1 into this post instead of 57. This problem has been fixed

Title A: “Learning about Production in PreProduction“ – Original Article

Title B: “Scrum for Artists” – Original Article

Written by: Clinton Keith(www.clintonkeith.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on January 11th, 2009

Dec

Clinton Keith brings us more insight into the world of agile, or even simply team structuring in general.  Discussing how to best organize your teams up, the arguments behind team rooms or open settings and finally the role that Tools can play in Agile development

Title: ‘Colo-Teams & Team Rooms + Role of Tools in Agile Dev‘ – Original Article

Written by: Clinton Keith (www.clintonkeith.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on December 4th, 2008

Nov

Clinton Keith shares some more insight detailng the workings of running an agile team, not only what you need to do from a developer point of view but also steps to take as a publisher to enable an agile team and realize more productivity out of your project teams than ever before.  He quickly dispells the myth that scrum and agile development immediately do away with planning all together and goes over some methods of implementing planning structures into an Agile Team environment

Title: ‘Scrum and Long Term Project Planning ‘

Written by: Clinton Keith (www.clintonkeith.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on November 20th, 2008

Nov

Clinton Keith is the author on this great introductory article on Scrum and why you should be using it.
We cover the details of how it is structured the pitfalls that can arise if it isn’t implemented properly and how to truly achieve a new level of efficiency and transparency with the Agile Development Methodology.

Title: ‘Why Use Scrum?’

Written by: Clinton Keith(www.clintonkeith.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on November 7th, 2008