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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by progbits on Thursday November 23, 2023 @06:53AM (#38391790)
> Later we developed a bug database but during gta3, the testers would simply print out every bug. Every programmer, level designer and artist had a physical pile of sheets on their desk. If you felt the bug was more easily fixed by someone else you would simply put it on that persons pile.

Is this kanban? :D

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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by CoastalCoder on Thursday November 23, 2023 @07:00AM (#38391832)
Despite the obvious downsides, it's kinda beautiful in its simplicity.
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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by Cthulhu_ on Thursday November 23, 2023 @07:20AM (#38391976)
It's why, when we were full time in the office, I preferred the use of sticky notes. Physical task and progress tracking is great.
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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by WirelessGigabit on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:37PM (#38398434)
Make sure to get the extra sticky ones though. We once lost track of quite some bugs because the glue let go and the post-its fell into the air-vents below.
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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by sdenton4 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @07:03AM (#38391856)
As someone who writes copious little todo lists on post-it notes with little check boxes I can X out when they're done... I kinda love this. Not really remote-work friendly, though.
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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by hit_to_key on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:38AM (#38393896)
I guess you could achieve the same (or a similar) workflow remotely by using fax machines.
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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by sdenton4 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:36PM (#38395941)
The uniqueness of the physical object being moved around plays a real role, though. I can also imagine the print out accumulating notes as it gets passed around.
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Re:Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down by baz00 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @06:58AM (#38391824)
Could be. If it's not JIRA it's good though!
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