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Production 101 - #14 Scope Management and the Art of Cutting

How to manage what’s in the game before you run out of time to make decisions

May 31 • Rob Sandberg

Production 101 - #13 How to Build a Milestone Schedule

Building timelines that survive contact with a development team

May 31 • Rob Sandberg

Production 101 - #12 Agile for Game Producers

What the framework is, what it breaks on, and what to do instead

May 31 • Rob Sandberg

Production 101 - #11 Roadmaps in Live Service

When the roadmap never ends, the work of keeping it honest never ends either

May 31 • Rob Sandberg

The Production Context Stack

The third layer most studios haven’t built yet.

May 27 • Rob Sandberg

Agentic AI Needed a Producer. It Got One by Accident.

The Q→O→D→D→A protocol in Claude Code Game Studios is the governance layer the industry keeps forgetting to build

May 25 • Rob Sandberg

I Don’t Know What I’m Doing. That’s the Point.

What dyslexia, a terminal, and thirty years of game production taught me about using Claude Code

May 21 • Rob Sandberg

May 20 • Rob Sandberg

Claude Code Game Studios: 49 Agents, One Context Window

The most structured attempt I’ve seen at agentic game production. Here’s what that reveals.

May 19 • Rob Sandberg

98% of the Work Has Nothing to Do With AI

Producers have been doing 98% of this work since before AI was in the conversation.

May 13 • Rob Sandberg

Engineers Constrain Agents. Producers Brief Them.

Thirty years of production thinking turns out to be the correct mental model for agentic AI. The research explains why.

May 11 • Rob Sandberg

What the video game lawyer got wrong about AI

His IP warning targets 19% of how game studios actually use these tools

May 7 • Rob Sandberg

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