““We don’t have two projects that have several hundred people on them. We have one [project] and then some that are in pre-production, or maybe just creeping out of pre-production, but will have to wait until the main focus has completed before we move everybody off of that project.”
“We’ve got principle employees now, we’ve just promoted a bunch of VPs as well, we’re adding more leads… something that we’ve traditionally done on productions in the past is our leads and directors would still be too hands-on to where they didn’t have enough time to manage their team and people, so we’re freeing them up to do that.”
He also confirmed Naughty Dog has been working with a leadership coach in an attempt to teach its lead developers to be better managers.”
I feel like a better title for this article would be “Naughty Dog is Actively Investing in their Lead Devs and a Multi-Team Sturcture”
