Our first Open Dev Experience

Last week I exposed the  Open Development idea to our developers. As expected… excitement in the air.

For the first Open Dev project we are setting up a 4-5 developer group to create an iPad/iPhone game. I have something in mind… in fact a game with some concepts I’ve already developed in my early days as a Flash Games developer (about 5 years ago). Unofficially I have already told them some concept ideas of this game and they kind of liked

At Inspira, the last two weeks were peculiar. We delivered four projects, finished one project sprint and started five new projects. At this point our load of sprint plans, kick-off meetings, client calls and other planning stuff are kind of high wich is demanding me a LOT of time. I’m not sure if I can manage to schedule this week the first project meeting, but I’ll try to make it happen this Thursday before our working day begins.

And How to Start?

And I was wondering how to start this “experience”. I think nothing can inspire us more than a cool game. Maybe thats a good way to start.

Of course I can’t just take some of the most brilliant developers out of the current projects in the house. Paying the bills first. I guess I’ll start by the “parallel project” approach where we can use the company infrastructure and some personal time to accomplish this. Let’s see…

Well, next steps: discuss with our developer team (aprox. 17  people) about these ideas, figure out who is up to the open development experience and schedule the First Open Development Meeting.

Guess is a good start.

Starting something here…

At Inspira we started a couple months ago to take some steps into mobile development. Our company exists since 2007 here in Brazil and until last year, our main focus was web applications and products under .NET platform, mainly (thank God!) .NET MVC.

The goal of this blog is to share our challenges, creative ideas, problems and solutions through cool projects and logging our steps here day-by-day (or almost…)

Thats it!