Semester 2: Post 7

Semester 2: Post 7

We made it to the break but there will be no rest for me. I know no matter what the team grade is at the midterm I'll blame myself for it not being higher. I've failed my team in so many ways thus far in this semester.. It hasn't been all bad but with a bigger team there were so many new mistakes to make and I made them all. I'm going to probably work on some stuff over the break that'll help the team out when we return. 

I've already scripted one new feature into the google sheet planner I just need to do that for anything I could possibly want in that. More importantly I need to make the video very soon, as in today. I'm going to possibly just ask for the bad footage if I need to. We need new footage for the video for the folks going to GDC. Even the bad footage is better than the really old footage.

I'm going to try to get some rest but I think It'd be easier to rest if I just do enough work to satisfy my self imposed debt to the team.

Semester 2: Post 6

Semester 2: Post 6

I spent last week with my nose down focusing on making the better presentation. I hit what was written on the check list of things that needed to be addressed in the presentation but I didn't sell that we had a plan moving forward. It seems that we really didn't. We were working on something better but I'd been too hands off leaving everything to the leads. People were working in isolation and I didn't want to disturb them in their hole. People have emerged from their holes now though.

We have a plan now. I was afraid to plan. I selected the members of this team because I respect them a lot and I didn't want to shackle them with my incompetent producering. In doing that I was incompetent. I wasn't ready to plan because I was waiting for the designers to produce good, solid documentation and in not making it clear that I wanted that I failed them again. It's not too late to be great but I'd say we've lost at least a week of good work in these weeks of playing it loose.