1.1 Risk Management for Game Producers

Game Production Community Podcast

A general chat around risk management for those involved in making video games. This is an introduction to the topic and is aimed at game producers.
Topics covered include:
- Why should you take risks and issues more seriously when making a game?
- What does risk management in the gaming world look like?
- What are risks and issues anyway?
- Why Risk and Issue logs are so useful
- How to tie in to Leadership meetings to really make this all useful
- Complexity of game making affecting risks/issues
- Example of how plans change, dependencies arise, etc and how your log can track this and assist in planning
- Producer accountability
- Continuous improvement of you and your team(s)
- Conversations, collaboration and transparency that arise for a positive approach to risk management
- Following through and taking action: how this leads to gaining trust, faith and momentum
Part 2 goes into more detail on actual risk and issue examples.
Part 3 is a walkthrough of generating a Risk and Issue Log that you can download and use/abuse at your leisure.
I mentioned some other articles on risk management for gaming. Here they are:
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131309/risk_management_with_development_.php
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/191523/managing_risk_in_video_game_.php
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