Do you know where your Producer is?

 

It’s 12:41am on a Sunday night.  Do you know where your Producer is?  That’s right, he is on JIRA triple checking the project tasks and taking notes for the next daily scrum meeting. Just prior to that he set up an “Open House” inviting hundreds of people to come and playtest the controls.  But wait there’s more, he also has initiated contact with specific Faculty that the team identified would be great to have critique from at this stage in the development cycle. All of this in the name of letting the creatives do what they do best…  Create.

What the Deuce!  I am a creative too.  Oh, barnacles!  Yep, I’m also writing music, creating sound effects, and doing unwraps too.

Production First:

So far the team seems to be on track.  I can tell that we are resolving tasks more than creating tasks as we near deadlines.  After feedback and critique sessions, we create a boatload of new tasks for ourselves.  Our first milestone shows this clearly:

Milestone 2 was similar, however, I feel like we are getting better at tasking which is the reason for the larger “tasks created” spike where 44 tasks were created.

Creative Second:

So, you’ve stuck around this long?  Well I suppose a reward is in order.  Here’s some music: Dark Clutches Theme Rough Cut