Game Design TheoryAgile- the structured approach

Paul Taylor 2010

What is Development?

Pre-Production

Production

What is a Model?

H. L. Mencken: “For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.”

Cowboy Coding

• You already know how to do this!

The Waterfall Model

• Introduced by Winston Royce in 1970• DoD Projects mandated the use of this model

throughout the 1980s and 1990s. (DoD STD 2167)

• Royce only illustrated it so he could highlight how BAD the process is!

• The failure rate of DoD projects using the waterfall model was only 75%!!!

• An ISO 9001 Certified Company advertising theri use of the waterfall approach:• http://www.saahisystems.com/solutions.html

• LAST year a paper was published investigating the ‘merits’ of the waterfall model• http://www.springerlink.com/content/v742q69022jq6773/

http://www.infoq.com/resource/articles/scaling-software-agility/en/resources/ch02.pdf

Enter the Spiral Modelhttp://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-355JFall-2005/840A797C-FEC5-45CC-BCD8-13C6A3D2C6CE/0/spiral_model.gif

What is Agile?http://www.initto.com/images/agile-development.jpg

Agile vs agile

• There are two stands on agile development– The faithful– The disloyal

Scrum

• Agile + Pigs and Chickens

The End – For Now