How We Scrum | #AltDevBlogADay

How We Scrum « #AltDevBlogADay

We‘re a small indie company of six. Four programmer/designer hybrids, though each of them proficient in other areas too, one artist/designer and one community manager/marketing/designer. Only half of us have ever worked in other game companies and only one of us has ever contributed to a AAA game (though uncredited). We have no strong ego running the business, but a very collaborative atmosphere. That’s why we need a clear methodology for working efficiently. We have a rigid structure for our creative process in order to live the freedom that it gives. The system we’re using is loosely based on scrum but finely tuned to our situation. I don’t believe in off-the-shelf design methods. So we tailored our own. Here’s how we scrum.