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  • Everyone Chasing the Ball

    Or positioning is what wins during periods of change. At school break time, football rarely looked like football. Someone produced a ball, jumpers became goals, and…

  • Lean, The Missing Stabiliser

    How teams overcorrect after a shock, and why lean brings them back. My first business started in 2003 with almost nothing. Five years of experience in…

  • Team retention and culture

    The small things that keep people around I’ve written elsewhere about why I set up Kempt, what we built, and what I learned the hard way…

  • Leadership & Mistakes

    Or ask questions, listen, address… A good friend in the games industry once told me that he considered himself a “51%-er” – implying that what made…

  • The Danger of Cognitive Bias

    Series: Cognitive Biases I used to think the hardest part of building games was technical. The engine, the platform, the tooling, the bugs that only appear…

  • Game & Software Development Issues

    And how to avoid them A risk matrix is a useful planning tool at any stage of development. It helps you anticipate problems, agree mitigations early,…