This is the second in a two-part excerpt from the author’s new book Agile Game Development with Scrum. Part one — “Agile, By Design” — discussed the need to find a balance between documentation and collaboration.
Agile planning practices create a prioritized feature backlog that can be revised as the game emerges. The value of features added is evaluated every sprint. However, many core mechanics take more than a single sprint to demonstrate minimum marketable value. As a result, the team and product owner need a certain measure of faith that the vision for such mechanics will prove itself. However, too much faith invested in a vision will lead teams down…
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