Agile game development with Scrum / Clinton Keith

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keith, Clinton, autor.

Series:

Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)

The Addison-Wesley signature series Agile game development with Scrum

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 recurso en línea (xi, 227 páginas) : ilustraciones

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Addison Wesley, 2010

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Game development is in crisis—facing bloated budgets, impossible schedules, unmanageable complexity, and death march overtime. It’s no wonder so many development studios are struggling to survive. Fortunately, there is a solution. Scrum and Agile methods are already revolutionizing development outside the game industry. Now, long-time game developer Clinton Keith shows exactly how to successfully apply these methods to the unique challenges of game development. Keith has spent more than fifteen years developing games, seven of them with Scrum and agile methods. Drawing on this unparalleled expertise, he shows how teams can use Scrum to deliver games more efficiently, rapidly, and cost-effectively; craft games that offer more entertainment value; and make life more fulfilling for development teams at the same time.

Contents:

COVER

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Part I: The Problem and the Solution

1 The Crisis Facing Game Development

A Brief History of Game Development

The Crisis

A Silver Lining

Additional Reading

2 Agile Development

Why Projects Are Hard

Why Use Agile for Game Development?

What an Agile Project Looks Like

The Challenge of Agile

Part II: Scrum and Agile Planning

3 Scrum

The History of Scrum

Scrum Parts

Scrum Roles

Customers and Stakeholders

Chickens and Pigs

Scaling Scrum

Summary

4 Sprints

The Big Picture

Planning

Tracking Progress

The Daily Scrum Meeting

Sprint Reviews

Retrospectives

Sprint Failures

5 User Stories

A Fateful Meeting

What Are User Stories?

Levels of Detail

Conditions of Satisfaction

Using Index Cards for User Stories

INVEST in User Stories

User Roles

Defining Done

Collecting Stories

Advantages of User Stories

6 Agile Planning

Why Agile Planning?

The Product Backlog

Estimating Story Size

Release Planning

Part III: Agile Game Development

7 Video Game Project Planning

Midnight Club Story

Minimum Required Feature Sets

The Need for Stages

The Development Stages

Mixing the Stages

Managing Stages with Releases

Production on an Agile Project

8 Teams

Great Teams

A Scrum Approach to Teams

Game Teams and Collaboration

Scaling and Distributing Scrum

9 Faster Iterations

Where Does Iteration Overhead Come From?

Measuring and Displaying Iteration Time

Personal and Build Iteration

Additional Reading.

Part IV: Agile Disciplines

10 Agile Technology

The Problems

An Agile Approach

11 Agile Art and Audio

The Problems We Are Solving with Agile

Concerns About Agile

Art Leadership

Art on a Cross-Discipline Team

12 Agile Design

Designing with Scrum

13 Agile QA and Production

Agile QA

The Role of QA on an Agile Game Team

Agile Production

Part V: Getting Started

14 The Myths and Challenges of Scrum

Silver Bullet Myths

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

Scrum Challenges

15 Working with a Publisher

The Challenges

Building Trust, Allaying Fear

Agile Contracts

16 Launching Scrum

The Three Stages of Adoption

Adoption Strategies

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Bibliografía: p. 226-227.

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ISBN:

9786612568886

9780321670281

0321670280

9781282568884

1282568884

9780321670311

0321670310

OCLC:

1027159020