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Lee Winder in Managing Game Development

Jan 1, 2017

User Story Mapping

In a previous post I made clear my dislike for User Stories, and how there are fundamental problems with them that make them…

Lee Winder in Managing Game Development

Nov 5, 2016

User Stories are Broken

There comes a time when something is so ubiquitous that is starts to lose it’s original purpose. This usually happens…

Lee Winder in Managing Game Development

Nov 9, 2016

How I Interview People

No one has the perfect interview technique.

Lee Winder in Managing Game Development

Nov 23, 2016

Don’t Bother Interviewing Anyone. Ever.

Click bait title alert - sorry!

Lee Winder in Managing Game Development

Dec 23, 2015

You Need Two Holiday Policies

I work in a traditional company with a traditional holiday policy. It boils down to being given 28 days…

Lee Winder in Managing Game Development

Mar 26, 2015

Your Daily Stand-Ups are Not Working

The majority of Morning Stand-Ups are a waste of your developers time.

Of all the (agile, scrum or any other) process studios have implemented across the globe, the one element that seems to be…

Lee Winder in Managing Game Development

Jan 23, 2017

Me(n) and Women In Tech

Today I joined Capital One’s Women in Tech work group.

Lee Winder in Managing Game Development

Dec 15, 2016

Use Daily Stand Ups to Frame and Track Your Intent Every Day

I’ve written before about why daily stand ups generally don’t work, but I wanted to offer just a small change that will see a big impact on the effectiveness of the stand up far beyond the 10 minutes you spend talking about…

Lee Winder in Managing Game Development

Jan 30, 2017

A Visual Guide to Sprint Planning

A simple, visual guide, to how I approach sprint planning and the following tracking sessions.

Lee Winder in Managing Game Development

Oct 21, 2015

Focused 1:1 Questions

1:1’s are one of the most powerful and useful tools a manager has to develop…

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