My coverage includes:

- Day 1 – 11am – Project Management Idea Swap
- Day 1 – 2:45pm – Getting Games Done – 10 Lifehacking Tips
- Day 2 – 11am – Management Idea Swap

Is anyone coming in on the 12th? If anyone wants to meet up to share indie game dev or innovative stuff… let me know. Coming early so I get enough sleep beforehand and do this blogging (and other business) coherently.

Here are some topics we’ll likely explore during the two “idea swap” sessions:

Project Leadership

• managing experiments and controlling iteration
• agile/scrum
• managing stakeholders
• MS Project tips and tricks
• team building tactics
• pre-production
• localization
• scheduling
• asset tracking
• post-production
• content production
• usage of open source code, tools, tech
• effectively delegating responsibility, sense of ownership
• etc, etc, etc

Management Leadership

• studio growth strategies
• managing risk
• the “Hollywood” model
• office layout and workspace design
• quality of life
• credit standards
• start-ups
• self-publishing and new biz models
• outsourcing
• staff introduction practices
• employer branding
• managing product development while developing employees
• etc, etc, etc

Please add a comment to this post (or email jason @ igda.org) with the other topics you’d like to explore with your peers during the “idea swap” discussion sessions.

Looking to roll up your sleeves and dive into the Leadership Forum? Here are a few areas you can participate/contribute:

1 – Swap topic ideas
We are running two “ideas swaps”, one for the Project track and the other for the Management track. These fully interactive group driven session are like speed-dating for ideas. Tables will focus on different related topics determined by you ahead of time. Several group/topic rotations will be done so participants can explore various topics of interest, and interact with many different peers along the way. Room-wide report outs and summaries will close out the session.

So, have any topics you’d like to explore more deeply with your peers? Topics should be either related to Project Leadership (ie, the nuts and bolts of game production) or Management Leadership (ie, broader scale topics that go beyond a single team or project).

If you have some ideas to propose for our list, either email Jason directly at jason @ igda.org, or post your ideas a comment to the following page:
http://www.igda.org/leadership/?p=91

2 – Book reviewers
We are running a “book review jam” as a session in the Personal Leadership Track, where ten participants will each provide a rapid-fire 5-minute review+summary of a book related to leadership, management, game production, etc.

If you would like to be one of our jammers, please email Jason directly at jason @ igda.org with the title of the book you’d like to present. In turn you will be provided with a “template” to help guide your review (and keep you on time).

3 – Blogging volunteers
Any bloggers among you?

One of the cool things we do is to “live-blog” the Leadership Forum (ie, post a brief summary of each session to the conference web site more-or-less right after each session).

We would like a handful of such volunteers, so we can get full coverage without burdening any one person.

There will be wifi at the conference, but you’d have to bring your own laptop. Also, FYI, we’re using the oh-so-user-friendly WordPress, so should be quite easy to post, etc. We’re not looking for transcripts or super long/detailed posts (well, unless you can type crazy fast). More just summaries of the key points; to give a sense of what was said overall, etc.

If this is of interest, please ping Jason directly via jason @ igda.org.