Scrum at Mind Candy
For a while now I’ve wanted to write a blog post about how the game development process works at Mind Candy. We use an Agile development process called Scrum, and it suits our business very well.
Over the course of 3 months we recorded an essential part of the Scrum process at Mind Candy: the movement of tasks over our 10 foot tall scrum boards. We have these boards at the back of the office for everyone to see, and it’s a great way for the whole company to get a feel for what features are currently being developed and how well they’re going.
I had originally envisioned a mammoth post going into great detail about how wonderful scrum is for a creative startup like Mind Candy, the benefits it brings our awesome developers and how, as a management team, knowing that we’re always working on the highest priority work to keep our millions of users growing and actively engaged is a great thing, but the irony is that I spent so long thinking about the post that I never actually wrote anything, and that’s what the heart of scrum is all about: releasing the minimal marketable feature as early as possible.
So here you have the first iteration of my post about scrum, as well as the first of hopefully many time-lapse videos of how our processes work at Mind Candy.
If working in a fast paced environment using a process that empowers everyone on the team to create amazing products interests you, then good news! We’re recruiting and we’d love to hear from you.
We’re absolutely loving this video at cxpartners towers. Great to see the visualisation of your scrums – and the great use of post-its. Thanks!
June 16th, 2010 at 2:19pm