Same Oars, Bigger Ship: Navigating AA(A) Live Ops with Indie XP
summary
Indie production practices scale to live ops: a producer brain trust prototypes changes on a single engineering team, defines roles, and forces a prioritized backlog so sprints cut meeting time and increase throughput. Tools used: Jira, story points, spreadsheets, Slack/Discord, weekly retros and a production journal for lessons. Context: moving from ~20-person indie projects to a 1,000+-person PUBG ecosystem with only a skeleton production group, producers rebuild process, track velocity and report improved planning — a work-in-progress that is already showing measurable gains.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:25Pubg
- 2:16My Background
- 4:42Pubg Production
- 8:00Where are we
- 8:25People Process Position
- 15:51Build a Plan
- 16:10Brain Trust
- 20:18Brain Trust Questions
- 21:49Production Journal
- 26:24Prototype
- 27:34Sprint Planning
- 33:01Iterating
- 34:22Presenting Findings
- 38:01Questions
- 39:54Implementation
- 47:01Managing Communication
- 47:31Team Meetings
- 54:01Dry Dock