The games industry is rushing headlong to Agile development methodologies just now; it’s a great source of excitement for some, with conference sessions and magazine articles left, right and centre, and “evangelists” spreading the word.
I’m sick of it. I can’t wait for the day when everyone realises how much of a fad-diet, religious-cult-inspired, money-making exercise [...]
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The Agile Disease
Posted in Game development, Management for Geeks, Rants, Software development on November 16, 2008 | 68 Comments »
Codecs, Powerpoint, and the end of my tether
Posted in Rants on September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A couple of weeks back, I gave an internal presentation that included quite a few videos. Getting these videos to work reminded me just how terrible this corner of the software world can be.
I put together my videos using Sony Vegas (this was the pleasurable part – it’s fun and easy to use), and exported [...]
Anti-social networking
Posted in Rants on July 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but I’m highly sick of social networking. Not wanting to pick on one in particular, but what triggered me to write about this was a reminder I got today from Plaxo that my “invitation from jimmy is about to expire” – apparently this invitation was sent in November last year [...]
Get your source under control!
Posted in Game development, Rants, Software development on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A common pattern I’ve noticed is that the games industry is frequently a step or two behind the rest of the software development world – more or less as you’d expect given our rapid growth – we’re like the fast-growing child whose trousers don’t reach their ankles. Use (or misuse) of source control is [...]
