[CRJ10] Agile Practice

This week’s learning material explored the Agile manifesto and values, the process of envisioning after idea generation, and concepts related to effort estimation.

While taking notes, my thoughts often went back to compare this knowledge with my personal experience of Agile; trying to examine how close the teams I have worked in came to aligning themselves with its values and principles.

[CRJ9] Communities of Practice

This week, I presented the results of our final rapid ideation session with Will Ward. I also studied concepts related to communities of practice – groups that meet and engage in knowledge and experience sharing based around a common topic or problem (Pyrko, Dörfler and Eden 2016: 389-409). I reflect on my experience with both. I also took part in a short study session with fellow students.

[CRJ6.1] Interim Retrospective

As we have arrived at the middle of the first module of the Indie Games Development course, I went through my blog entries so far to reflect on my progress. Points of interest are split into start – stop – continue items as outlined by the Agile Alliance (Agile Alliance 2015).

[CRJ5] Reflection

The week’s challenge activity has been to categorise entries in the reflective journal according to the five key skill domains – Dispositional, Effective, Interpersonal, Cognitive and Procedural (Parker 2020).

[CRJ3] Rapid Ideation

In this post, I reflect on Week 3 of the Development Practice module. The week covered a number of concepts, from a continuation of the topic of ideation, to exploring rapid prototyping motivations, techniques, and opportunities in the form of game jams.

[CRJ1] Orientation

This is the first post in a series of weekly reflections on my progress in the Development Practice module I am undertaking as part of my MA. I am writing this after completing this week’s planned activities, but prior to our first weekly webinar. Considering this is the very beginning of the course, it has been light on content, but we have already touched upon Waterfall and Agile methodologies as well as academic practices and reflective writing.