Game Director, WB Games Montréal. Video game nerd. Designer. Tech head. Views expressed here are my own.
Video games as an industry frowns upon “playing it safe”. We are expected to compete on a high level, and the word safe is associated with not being…
At some point in my career as a game developer, I realized that I have a ‘work brand’ or identity, and that people I work with have an…
I have been misunderstanding “delegation” for most of my career.
Most leaders in my industry have some sense of the value of delegation. Large game projects call for…
The video game industry is starting to mature. We have a better understanding of how to do the work we do. Game studios tend to realize that pizza and free soda are not all that is required to build culture…
It’s been wisely pointed out that a useful way to see roles in an organization is to turn the company org chart upside down. The leaders (at the bottom) are responsible to work for all the people above them. A manager with 10 reports logically has 10 people that he/she has to “work to…