Quality of Life Videos

The IGDA hosted the full-day Quality of Life Summit at the 2005 Game Developers Conference. To share in the knowledge and lively discussions, the IGDA recorded all the sessions, which are made freely available here for download.

Jump to the QoL Events page to access all presentation slides, event proceedings, media coverage, etc.

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Summit Videos

Welcome/Introduction (mov - 23.3MB - 7minutes)
- Jason Della Rocca – Executive Director, IGDA

The State of Game Industry QoL Panel

	7 Reasons Why You Should Care About This Stuff (mov - 25.5MB - 16minutes) - Francois Dominic Laramée – freelance developer, IGDA QoL Committee Chair
	Globalization, Labor Shortages and their effects on the Game Industry's Quality of Life (mov - 17MB - 10minutes) - Clarinda Merripen – Director of Operations, Cyberlore Studios
	The US Fair Labor Standards Act and Other Legal Considerations Regarding Overtime and the Work Force (mov - 30.8MB - 17minutes) - Tom Buscaglia – Attorney, T.H. Buscaglia & Associates

Case Studies

	Quality of Life at BreakAway Games (mov - 25MB - 15minutes) - Deborah Tillett, President, BreakAway Games
	Quality-of-Life Lessons from Elsewhere in High-Tech (mov - 46.4MB - 30minutes) - Kim Pallister, Engineering Manager, Intel
	Quality of Life through applying Software Quality Management (mov - 57MB - 33minutes) - Tobi Saulnier, VP Operations, Vicarious Visions

The Business Case for Improved Production Practices (mov - 97MB - 60minutes)
- Steve McConnell – CEO and Chief Software Engineer, Construx Software

This keynote lecture is available to IGDA members only. IGDA members, must log in with their username/password to access this video.

Best selling author and software industry leader Steve McConnell explains the dollars and cents of production process improvement and maps out the need for improved software development practices in a way that is meaningful to managers and executives. The average software company spends 2-3 times as much on each project as best-in-class companies spend to deliver similar functionality. The average organization wastes 25% or more of its budget on projects that are ultimately cancelled. Technical staff members are all-too-aware of the need for improved practices. But how do you make the case to upper management?

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Labor Relations 101 (mov - 95.8MB - 57minutes)
- Gina Neff – Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego

How can organizations and associations improve the quality of life across an industry? What are unions and how do they function? What are the alternatives for solving workforce problems? This session examines cases of how other tech and creative industries have dealt with problems of workforce empowerment, including collective bargaining and other approaches to workforce problems. Along with presenting the pro and cons of unions, this session presents some of the new, innovative solutions to the problems of working in the new economy.

Towards a Sustainable Future: Panel & Discussion (mov - 166.5MB - 1hour42minutes)
- Jason Della Rocca (moderator) – Executive Director, IGDA
- Michel Allard – Vice President of Continuous Improvement, Ubisoft Montreal
- Julian Eggebretch – President/Lead Producer, Factor 5
- Joe Minton – President & CEO, Cyberlore Studios
- David Perry – President, Shiny Entertainment
- Rich Vogel – Executive Producer, Sony Online Entertainment

This panel of industry leaders explores the potential for a sustainable future where passion is rewarded, instead of exploited. A future where projects are well scheduled, contracts offer a sustainable business model, and developers are treated as the true creative engines of the game industry. They share their horror stories and their revelations, and provide insight on how they're working towards a future where the industry's workforce doesn't burnout and leave before they've done their best work.