Scrum for Video Game Development, by author Mike Cohn
vision...@gmail.com
by Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software
(event sponsored by AgileATX and IEEE Austin)
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
6:00 - 7:00 Socializing and Snacks
7:00 - 8:00 Presentation
National Instruments
11500 North MoPac, Building C, room 1S13 Austin, TX 78759
Map and directions to National Instruments here:
http://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/austin_cs/location.html
COST: FREE!
SCRUM FOR VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT
Scrum is one of the leading agile software development processes. It
is particularly well-suited for projects with high amounts of
technical challenge and risk. Further, Scrum is ideal for environments
with emergent requirements, those features that set one product apart
from all its competitors but that cannot be identified before the
project starts. This makes Scrum a near-perfect fit for video game
development where rapidly changing technology and finding the fun in a
new game are a fact of life.
With over 9,000 Certified ScrumMasters trained in the past four years,
a track record of success stretching back to 1993, and growing
adoption in video game development, Scrum is a proven, scalable agile
process for managing software projects. See if Scrum is right for you
by attending this one-hour introductory session that will draw on the
presenter's experience helping game developers adopt Scrum.
ABOUT MIKE COHN
Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software, a process and
project management consultancy and training firm. He is the author of
Agile Estimating and Planning, User Stories Applied for Agile Software
Development, and several books on Java, C , and database programming.
Mike has more than 20 years of experience in a variety of
environments, including financial services, federally regulated (ISO
9001) projects, websites, shrinkwrap software, internal development,
military contracting, and video game development. Mike has served as a
technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to
Fortune 40.
Mike ran his first Scrum project in 1995 and has been a vocal
proponent of Scrum ever since. He has helped with the adoption of
agile processes at companies such as Bioware, Capital One, the Federal
Reserve Bank of the United States, Google, High Moon Studios, JDA
Software, Lexis Nexis, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Nielsen Media
Research, Pearson, Philips Electronics, Sabre, Siemens, Sun
Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Turner Broadcasting, Ultimate
Software, and Yahoo. A frequent magazine contributor and conference
speaker, Mike is a founding member and former chairperson of the Agile
Alliance.