On Monday morning, not long after everyone entered the office, almost a quarter of an hour after the start of work, Joey and Kwong Xi came in with a whiteboard board that could be written with a pen. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After finding a prominent position and lowering the whiteboard against the wall, Joey first smiled and nodded to greet everyone, and then coughed, asking everyone to stop what they were doing for a while and focus their attention.

"Last week, I paid a little attention to everyone's work situation, and I think everyone's attitude and mental outlook are very positive and positive, which is of course good, but the management method may still be relatively primitive, and it completely depends on the consciousness of colleagues. That's not enough, after the team size expands, you can't expect every new colleague to have the same amount of passion for work, right? So I would like to introduce you to a very good management method, which is very popular and famous abroad, it is called Scrum. ”

What is the Chinese homonym for scrum? How come I have never heard of it? Everyone looks at me and I look at him, and each of them has a blank look on their faces.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, we'll do a demonstration later, and everyone will be clear about the process after running once, and it's quick to learn. Joey said with a smile, and then he beckoned Wakazakura over, "You go and buy two blank boxes of business cards and twenty yellow notebooks nearby." ”

Half an hour later, Wakazakura returned with what Joey had requested. Joey took out the money and drew a hundred-dollar bill and handed it to Wakasakura, asking if it was enough to reimburse her, and Wakazakura nodded and took it.

"The scrum management method is implemented according to the department, and now the program is a small car alone, and you can't start running scrum, so you can also attend the scrum meeting of the planning department, and pay attention to how we operate the process when you audit, and the scrum meeting of the program department will be led by you in the future. ”

Hearing Joey say this to himself, Che Guanglong nodded silently and stood up.

Everyone followed Joey into the small conference room and sat down around the table. Joey gave each of them eight blank business cards and a sticky note book.

"People pick up a pen and write these things on a blank business card: one hour, two hours, half a day, one day, two days, three days, a week, and no time needed. ”

Under Joey's demonstration, each of them wrote these words on their business cards.

"Next, everyone writes down the work at hand on sticky notes, and only writes one item on a piece of paper. Joey continued to demonstrate, "Old Duan, come first, tell me what work you have at hand now?"

Duan Shanshan was stunned for a moment, and slowly spoke, "According to the setting of the new version, modify the world background, chronicle, plot outline, resplit the task, and modify the corresponding configuration table such as the task table and the white table, and run the task process on the test server to check and proofread the modified content. ”

As a result, there are six more pages on Duan Shanshan's notebook: revise the world background document, revise the chronicle document, revise the plot outline document, modify the task table, modify the dialogue sheet, and test the modified mission flow.

Then Joey asked Duan Shanshan to read out the content page by page, and then each time the time evaluation was carried out by all the members of the planning department, and each person selectively showed his business card with various amounts of time written in his hand according to his own understanding of the work. For some of the more controversial results, Duan Shanshan briefly stated the reasons for his time planning, and then voted again, and finally decided whether to follow the time plan or the presiding officer of the meeting.

So the last time marked on Duan Shanshan's six sticky notes was: two hours, two hours, half a day, two days, two days, and one day, which added up to exactly six days' workload.

Joey took the six sticky notes, pasted them one at the end and the other into a string, then stood up and walked to the whiteboard writing board, picked up the pen, wrote a few planned names on the top of the whiteboard, and pasted the string of sticky notes under Duan Shanshan's name.

Then there were Ling Xingning, Saiwen and Liu Kewei, each of whom also listed the work at hand and evaluated the time by everyone. Among them, the work at hand by Saiwen was temporarily assigned by Ling Xingning every day, so there was only one day's amount, so Joey asked Ling Xingning to temporarily increase Saiwen's work plan and make up more than five days of workload......

Joey drew a horizontal line under the whiteboard, and the names of each project were written on the horizontal line.

He pointed to the area above the horizontal line and said that it was called the planning area, and then pointed to the area below the horizontal line and said that it was called the fruit area.

After that, whenever everyone finishes the work at hand, they can remove the corresponding sticky notes from the planning area on the whiteboard and paste them in the results area. In this way, everyone can see the progress of their own and others' work at a glance every day, which work has been completed and which work has not been completed, which is also convenient for everyone to make time arrangements and reduce the iterative effect in the work process. After Joey finished this explanation with a smile, he asked, "That's basically it, is there anything you don't understand?"

The process was indeed not complicated, and everyone smiled and shook their heads to indicate that there was no problem.

Joey patted Liu Kewei beside him on the shoulder: "Then that's it, you will preside over the scrum meeting of the planning department in the future." ”

Liu Kewei nodded, Joey waved to everyone, and left the office with Kuang Xi.

Duan Shanshan stood in front of the whiteboard with his chin crooked, staring at the contents on the board for a long time, Liu Kewei came over and patted him on the back before he reacted.

"Go for a cigarette. ”

Because there is only a translucent glass wall between the small conference room and the office, and there are no independent windows, the smokers of the threesome studio consciously do not smoke in the office, but walk through the corridor to the trash can with ashtray at the corner of the stairs of the safety exit.

The safety staircase is open-air and is cleaned by a cleaner every hour or two, and it looks pretty clean. Liu Kewei casually found a step and sat down.

While turning his head to look at the various huge metal containers in the factory next door in the distance, he lit a cigarette and asked, "Uncle Duan, what do you think of Joey? ”

Duan Shanshan sneered and said, "Do you want to hear the truth, or do you want to tell a lie?"

"Let's tell a lie first, a lie is usually better, right?" Liu Kewei responded happily.

"It's very friendly, it's very polite to us, and today you also taught us the so-called advanced foreign management methods, didn't you?" Duan Shanshan stretched his waist, made a few stretches, and replied relaxedly.

"Well, let's tell the truth again. Liu Kewei nodded.

Duan Shanshan was silent for about ten seconds, silently recalling the impressions left by the few limited contacts with Joey after coming to Shencheng, and then slowly spoke: "I think he should be a layman in terms of game development. ”

Liu Kewei took a deep puff of his cigarette and asked noncommittally, "Why do you say that?"

"I've noticed that when you talked to Che'er and Ling Xingning about professional topics with him before, his reaction was basically to listen silently and not express his position, or change the topic, I think he probably didn't know much about the situation, so he behaved like this to avoid showing timidity. Duan Shanshan scratched his head and replied, "Of course, it is not ruled out that people actually want to hide it, but I think that judging from Joey's personality, this possibility should not be very likely." ”

Liu Kewei nodded silently and agreed: "I also have similar feelings as you. ”

"That's why he wants to make this set of scrum management methods, in order to make up for his professional weaknesses, and to use this so-called advanced foreign experience to show his sense of existence, right?" Duan Shanshan simply raised one foot, put it on the railing of the stairs and began to press his legs.

"Do you think this set of scrum management methods is useless?" Liu Kewei stood up, walked to the side of the trash can and snuffed out the cigarette butts.

Duan Shanshan shook his head and said: "I didn't say that, of course it's useful, it's still useful, the problem is that I don't think it's as good as Joey said." The main thing is that it can make it simple and clear for everyone involved to grasp the progress of the entire project in a clear and timely manner. However, whether we can make a good game depends on the people of us, not the management method itself. Besides, having these scrum meetings to evaluate the working time plan would have cost everyone more time, so I think there are a lot of trades and losses. ”

Liu Kewei let out a long sigh, and sure enough, as he expected, Duan Shanshan's views and positions were basically the same as his.

"Whether Joey is a qualified producer or not, it doesn't matter to our team, we don't expect him to help us in R&D, and it's a great credit for us to invest in keeping the team running until the alpha is completed, not to mention that he also provided us with such a good office space. Liu Kewei made a summary, "It's useless to think so much, clean up your distractions and concentrate on doing a good job." ”

Duan Shanshan nodded sympathetically.

The two were about to go back to the office when Ling Xingning walked over to them.

"Lao Liu, are you looking for something?" Ling Xingning said as he lit a cigarette.

"Then I'll go back first, and you can talk. Duan Shanshan nodded to the two of them and walked into the corridor alone.

Seeing this, Liu Kewei stopped and asked in confusion: "What's wrong with Xingning, what do you want to find me?"

Ling Xingning was also the same as before, he found a step to sit down, rubbed his nose and said with a smile: "There was an executive planner of the Holy Grail Studio who told me on Q that he couldn't find a job, and asked me where I worked, and if I could take him with me." ”

"Who?" Liu Kewei was a little curious.

There are a total of five executive planners before and after the Holy Grail Studio, Sophie has not met Li Guangning for a long time, and among the remaining four, Liu Kewei is only a little familiar with the one who has been assigned to the level group for a while, and the others just know a name.

However, Ling Xingning was assigned to manage the executive planning not long after joining the Holy Grail, so he would be more familiar with them.

"It's Xiao Baihe from the system group. Ling Xingning replied with his glasses on his hands.