With billions of dollars of profit as proof, the Game-as-aService (GaaS) paradigm won't be fading out of fashion soon. But shipping and delivering constant content to fickle fans — without burning out teams? Not easy. More than mere marketing effort, successful GaaS delivery is a never-ending team effort that demands new ways of planning and managing work. Watch this webinar to discover project planning and management tactics that’ll get you to the finish line without pushing studio teams into overdrive. You’ll Learn: -How GaaS changes project planning & management. -3 studio business models and common delivery methods for each. -4 critical elements of modern GaaS delivery (from planning to metrics).

1. Winning GaaS Pipelines:
Best Practices for
Shipping Modern Games

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Presenter
Johan Karlsson
jkarlsson@perforce.com
Senior Consultant, Hansoft
Perforce Software

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What You’ll Learn
1
Why & How GaaS Changes Everything
2
Addressing New Planning Realities
3
How to Structure a GaaS Project

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• A game that keeps living
after launch.
• Offers updates, features,
events to players (at a price).
• Often associated with
freemium business model.
• But…
What’s Gaming-as-a-Service?

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• GaaS changes how games are built —
not only how they are distributed —
and brings new work management
challenges as well as opportunity.
It’s More Than Distribution!

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How GaaS Is Delivered
Collaboratively
deliver across
organizations.
Constantly
adding fun.
Instantly
responding
to feedback.

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3 Common Models
Gold Master Episodic GaaS

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Gold Master Model
Pre-production Production Post-production
Alpha
Beta
Gold
Master
First
Playable
Work-in-Process
+
Gantt
Scrum

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Episodic Model
Work-in-Process
Episode 1 Episode 2Platform Work
etc.
Scrum

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GaaS (Live)
Work-in-Process
+
Marketing Gantt
Kanban
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
etc.

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Why Kanban for GaaS?
GaaS Team Goal Kanban Answer
Collaboratively
Constantly
Instantly
Visual and transparent workflows
Focus on flow with Just-in-Time
(JiT) decision-making
Work with small, frequent
batches (releases)

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4 Critical Pieces for Shipping Modern Games
• Backlog Structure
• Milestone Planning
• Kanban Workflows
• Metrics

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“We know everything that's going to be
a part of that release, so we put up a
dashboard with the tasking and then
the bugs. And we put these up on
monitors throughout the office. At any
time, we can see how we're
trending towards that release, and,
if we're ever in the red or the
yellow, we can react quickly.”
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