About us

Firing tracer rounds Sometimes it¡¯s valuable to demonstrate a 20 minute experience with a quick and dirty level filled with stand-in assets to build knowledge of our level goals. This in turn may influence the lower levels of our vocabulary. Another valuable test would be to create a single room with as much graphics polish as your engine can muster to help refine our visual DNA and target. Although these assets may be thrown away, their cost is easily worth the knowledge they create for your project and customer. The key is to not waste more effort than the knowledge is worth. The PO is responsible for ROI Since the PO owns the return-on-investment for the project, they need to demand that the team demonstrate improved knowledge of production costs refined through pre-production iterations. They do this through separate stories or conditions of satisfaction on existing stories. An example is ¡°demonstrate the cost (in actual hours) to create the X level¡±. The last pre-production release should have a level or two which demonstrates the major range of vocabulary at potentially shippable quality. This is the only way the team can demonstrate that the knowledge of production costs have been learned.