The document provides guidance for assistant producers on how to be effective in their role. It outlines key responsibilities including understanding the development discipline, creating realistic plans, building relationships with developers, facilitating communication, uncovering issues, driving solutions, tracking tasks and metrics, and asking self-reflective questions. The overall message is that assistant producers should help ensure developers can do their best work and help make the final game as high quality as possible.

1. The Producer
Being the most effective producer you can
be.
Stephen Williams
Assistant Producer
THQ dba Relic Entertainment

2. Stephen Williams
Assistant Producer
Relic Entertainment
swilliams@relic.com

3. Agenda
-Understanding the discipline
-Planning for success
-Our responsibility
-Building relationships
-Facilitating
-Uncovering issues
-Driving solutions
-Communication
-Doing usual stuff too (metrics, tasks, etc)
-Questions to ask yourself
-Closing thoughts
-Questions?

4. The Art Producer

5. What to take from this story
-Get at least a basic understanding of the
discipline you are managing.
-If there is already a plan, and it is not
realistic, make sure to be clear about that.
-Be diligent in creating a realistic plan

6. With great power, comes great
responsibility

7. Extreme cupcake extravaganza!

8. Facilitating
• Uncovering Issues
• Driving solutions
• Communication

9. Uncovering issues

10. Driving solutions

11. Communication

12. Doing the usual stuff
• Tasks
• Metrics
• Follow-up
etc..

13. Task tracking
Don’t just do it purely for the sake of tracking

14. Ask yourself
What can I do to make things more efficient?
How can I be of use to the developers that I work closely
with on a day to day basis?
What is the value in the things that i do?
What are my goals?

15. Closing thoughts
What you should take away from this:
Help ensure that the Dev's can be their best.
Make sure the game ships as the best product it can be.

16. Questions ?