Pixar (3)
Pixar use regular meetings every few months called Braintrust Meetings to inspect progress made on a film, talk through what works and what doesn’t, and how to adapt the film to improve (i.e. similar to a Sprint Review).
‘put smart passionate people in a room together, charge them with identifying and solving problems, and encourage them to be candid with one another’
page 86-7
Structure (1, page 94)
- Film screening
- Lunch together in a conference room (to gather thoughts)
- Director will give a summary of where they think they are
- Feedback begins
Feedback (page 93)
- Braintrust notes, then, are intended to bring the true causes of problems to the surface – not to demand a specific remedy (page 93)
- The director (as mirrors the PO role) is able to change whatever he/she wants from the feedback
- Feedback is given as constructive criticism (page 103)
- “The writing in this scene isn’t good enough” (just criticism)
- “Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and be quoting those lines?” (more of a challenge and shows you want the same things)
References
- Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull
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