[game_edu] SCRUM in Game Development

[Nic Colley]

Thanks for the reads. Some great info.

Sent from my iPad

On Jan 9, 2011, at 6:55 PM, "Adam Parker" <aparker at qantmcollege.edu.au<mailto:aparker at qantmcollege.edu.au>> wrote:

Maic,

Thanks for the work. There are parallels to what we're already doing, so we'll certainly benefit from the rigor here.

Cheers,
Adam

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Masuch, Maic, Prof. Dr. <<mailto:maic.masuch at uni-due.de>maic.masuch at uni-due.de<mailto:maic.masuch at uni-due.de>> wrote:
Hi Nic,
you might want to have a look at our 2010 FDG paper
<http://www.uni-due.de/~hk0377/papers/Schild_ABC-Sprints_Adapting_Scrum_to_Academic_Game_Development_Courses_FDG2010.pdf>http://www.uni-due.de/~hk0377/papers/Schild_ABC-Sprints_Adapting_Scrum_to_Academic_Game_Development_Courses_FDG2010.pdf
where we summed up our experiences of some 3 years in teaching game development courses as part of a M.Sc. computer science curriculum.
We found out that you have to adopt the scrum methodology to an academic environment, but all in all I see a fundamental rise in quality and effectiveness of projects.

Best,
Maic




Prof. Dr. Maic Masuch
Professor for Multimedia Technology|Entertainment Computing
Department for Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Faculty of Engineering
University of Duisburg-Essen

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Happy New Year All!

What lessons have you learned while using SCRUM and any best practices?

I ask this as I am currently building a class "Agile Game Development". In this class I will be focusing on SCRUM with projects while talking about other development practices. I am able to pull from my experiences with SCRUM, but to better serve the students, I thought I should ask the community on their experiences.

Thanks,
Nic Colley
Faculty, Simulation & Game Development
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