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Scrum-ing the project
Hi,
writing about scrum from a perspective of a first year management student, who will learn about scrum in the second year of study, sounds a little awkward. The more funny thing about it is, that a literature for a scrum has been given to us by game design course and not by management with agile methods course. However, we started our shoot ’em up game project in full scrum way.
What is scrum?
It is one of the agile approaches to management, which characterise […]
Scrum-ing the project
Hi,
writing about scrum from a perspective of a first year management student, who will learn about scrum in the second year of study, sounds a little awkward. The more funny thing about it is, that a literature for a scrum has been given to us by game design course and not by management with agile methods course. However, we started our shoot ’em up game project in full scrum way.
What is scrum?
It is one of the agile approaches to management, which characterise […]
Dev Blog #3 -How We Work
Hello again!
This week I will be writing about how our team works during the game production, which we do by follow the Scrum framework. Scrum is an agile framework especially tailored for software development, so naturally it works very well for game production as well. When working with Scrum, the goal is to often and continuously produce increments/a shippable product, in this case working versions of the game. To do this, we work in sprints. Under normal conditions a sprint […]
Dev Blog #3 -How We Work
Hello again!
This week I will be writing about how our team works during the game production, which we do by follow the Scrum framework. Scrum is an agile framework especially tailored for software development, so naturally it works very well for game production as well. When working with Scrum, the goal is to often and continuously produce increments/a shippable product, in this case working versions of the game. To do this, we work in sprints. Under normal conditions a sprint […]
Cut my life into stand-ups, this is my Scrum approach… Correlation, No waterfall…. Don’t give a truck, if you click this post, reading
Hello!
Today I will be sharing my experiences with Scrum as a producer (Scrum master??) for team Kraken.
Don’t mind the title, just follow the tune
Sprints and tasks
For this project, the sprint length was pre-determined to be 1 week long (although 2-4 week long sprints are most effective), which I am not very content with. However looking from another perspective, it makes fellow team members work pretty much every day. Starting with small steps is good for them, rather than starting with […]
Cut my life into stand-ups, this is my Scrum approach… Correlation, No waterfall…. Don’t give a truck, if you click this post, reading
Hello!
Today I will be sharing my experiences with Scrum as a producer (Scrum master??) for team Kraken.
Don’t mind the title, just follow the tune
Sprints and tasks
For this project, the sprint length was pre-determined to be 1 week long (although 2-4 week long sprints are most effective), which I am not very content with. However looking from another perspective, it makes fellow team members work pretty much every day. Starting with small steps is good for them, rather than starting with […]
Blog #3: The importance of sprint retrospectives
Hello and welcome to my third blog entry!
For the development of our Shoot ‘em Up game we were instructed to apply the Scrum framework. Scrum is an Agile framework that is extensively applied in the software development industry (and thus applicable to game development). By placing high value on the Agile philosophy and preserving Scrum principles, game development teams can become very effective and ensure a valuable product is being developed. An emphasis on iterative development, incremental […]
Blog #3: The importance of sprint retrospectives
Hello and welcome to my third blog entry!
For the development of our Shoot ‘em Up game we were instructed to apply the Scrum framework. Scrum is an Agile framework that is extensively applied in the software development industry (and thus applicable to game development). By placing high value on the Agile philosophy and preserving Scrum principles, game development teams can become very effective and ensure a valuable product is being developed. An emphasis on iterative development, incremental […]
Task prioritization with MoSCoW
Prioritizing tasks started to be key activity during our sprint planning meetings. As soon as the student group were approaching to release the alpha, different methods were tried to find optimal way how to prioritize tasks in a sprint. When we adopted Scrum in the student project, we were still continuing in a method we used before, that could be close to Eisenhower box method, which is a relatively simple technique using urgent/important principle, which helped us to think about […]
Task prioritization with MoSCoW
Prioritizing tasks started to be key activity during our sprint planning meetings. As soon as the student group were approaching to release the alpha, different methods were tried to find optimal way how to prioritize tasks in a sprint. When we adopted Scrum in the student project, we were still continuing in a method we used before, that could be close to Eisenhower box method, which is a relatively simple technique using urgent/important principle, which helped us to think about […]
Get Up, Stand Up
Previously on Let’s Make Some of Them Video Games…
Presentation, Good.
Comfortably Scrum
Ah, yes. Scrum. My good friend. My agile friend. I do not know what to say about you. Exercising is not really my thing. So sprinting, or even just standing up, is generally not something I enjoy. I have never watched rugby. Anyway, I do appreciate a flexible and iterative work structure. Behind the corporate jargon and ironic formal structuring for being less structured and formal is a good framework for […]
Get Up, Stand Up
Previously on Let’s Make Some of Them Video Games…
Presentation, Good.
Comfortably Scrum
Ah, yes. Scrum. My good friend. My agile friend. I do not know what to say about you. Exercising is not really my thing. So sprinting, or even just standing up, is generally not something I enjoy. I have never watched rugby. Anyway, I do appreciate a flexible and iterative work structure. Behind the corporate jargon and ironic formal structuring for being less structured and formal is a good framework for […]
Flip a paper prototype to digital in 5 days
To initiate works on the student shoot-em-up game project, and to open a group discussion about development, I prepared a paper prototype to specify movement mechanics and dynamics. Then I asked the team to flip the paper prototype to a digital prototype, using Unity2D and C#. The purpose of the paper prototype was to clarify the basic movement mechanics of the character in 2D Euclid space, whereas the digital prototype was requested to test the current abilities of the team […]
Flip a paper prototype to digital in 5 days
To initiate works on the student shoot-em-up game project, and to open a group discussion about development, I prepared a paper prototype to specify movement mechanics and dynamics. Then I asked the team to flip the paper prototype to a digital prototype, using Unity2D and C#. The purpose of the paper prototype was to clarify the basic movement mechanics of the character in 2D Euclid space, whereas the digital prototype was requested to test the current abilities of the team […]
Alpha Presentation
This week our Sprint Planning Meeting was hosted by our Second-Year Project Manager, our Scrum Master. The primary task this week was the Alpha Presentation, the Scrum Master delegated the task of writing and hosting this presentation to me, which we did not object to. I personally felt that it was fair to let me handle this task, since it can for the most part feel like Project Managers aren’t contributing enough with the general project.
I decided to host a […]
Alpha Presentation
This week our Sprint Planning Meeting was hosted by our Second-Year Project Manager, our Scrum Master. The primary task this week was the Alpha Presentation, the Scrum Master delegated the task of writing and hosting this presentation to me, which we did not object to. I personally felt that it was fair to let me handle this task, since it can for the most part feel like Project Managers aren’t contributing enough with the general project.
I decided to host a […]
Presentation day for alpha
Today was a somewhat stressful and nervous day for we had our presentation for our alpha.
We have come pretty far with our game compared to some other teams and we are pretty happy about that. But since our programmer had a super busy schedule with all his work i wanted to pick a good day for him where we could meet and plan our presentation well. We ended up picking the day before the presentation to put together our power […]
Presentation day for alpha
Today was a somewhat stressful and nervous day for we had our presentation for our alpha.
We have come pretty far with our game compared to some other teams and we are pretty happy about that. But since our programmer had a super busy schedule with all his work i wanted to pick a good day for him where we could meet and plan our presentation well. We ended up picking the day before the presentation to put together our power […]
Blog #2 The Alpha presentation
In this blog post I’m going to cover my process of creating the alpha presentation of our current project – Umibōzu.
Before I opened PowerPoint to begin drafting the presentation, I decided to first go through the Scrum document, which I have mentioned in my previous blog entry. I did this to refresh my memory of what the group has done so far, and what is still ahead of us in the upcoming weeks.
After restoring my memory of the last few […]
Blog #2 The Alpha presentation
In this blog post I’m going to cover my process of creating the alpha presentation of our current project – Umibōzu.
Before I opened PowerPoint to begin drafting the presentation, I decided to first go through the Scrum document, which I have mentioned in my previous blog entry. I did this to refresh my memory of what the group has done so far, and what is still ahead of us in the upcoming weeks.
After restoring my memory of the last few […]
Post #2 – Using play testing feedback
What?
Apart from the aforementioned (in this post) online play testing that Group Siren is continuesly conducting all of the student groups taking Game Design 2 (5SD064) at Uppsala University, Campus Gotland attended a pre-alpha play testing workshop last monday (12/2-2018).
Said workshop left us with a mountain of feedback which had to be processed and interpreted in order for Group Siren to be able to make improvements based on said feedback, which I, to the best of my ability have done.
Throughout […]
Post #2 – Using play testing feedback
What?
Apart from the aforementioned (in this post) online play testing that Group Siren is continuesly conducting all of the student groups taking Game Design 2 (5SD064) at Uppsala University, Campus Gotland attended a pre-alpha play testing workshop last monday (12/2-2018).
Said workshop left us with a mountain of feedback which had to be processed and interpreted in order for Group Siren to be able to make improvements based on said feedback, which I, to the best of my ability have done.
Throughout […]
Flip a paper prototype to digital
To initiate works on the student shoot-em-up game project, and to open a group discussion about development, I prepared a paper prototype to specify movement mechanics and dynamics. Then I asked the team to flip the paper prototype to a digital prototype, using Unity2D and C#. The purpose of the paper prototype was to clarify the basic movement mechanics of the character in 2D Euclid space, whereas the digital prototype was requested to test the current abilities of the team […]
Flip a paper prototype to digital
To initiate works on the student shoot-em-up game project, and to open a group discussion about development, I prepared a paper prototype to specify movement mechanics and dynamics. Then I asked the team to flip the paper prototype to a digital prototype, using Unity2D and C#. The purpose of the paper prototype was to clarify the basic movement mechanics of the character in 2D Euclid space, whereas the digital prototype was requested to test the current abilities of the team […]