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Making an AA Studio’s Build and Release Path Recoverable
This case study focuses on the delivery boundaries and operating model used to make a build and release path recoverable.
Situation
An Unreal Engine and Perforce delivery path had coupled source integration, builders, cache, artifacts, client and server packaging, and content handoffs. Recovery and ownership across that path were unclear.
Boundaries addressed
- Mapped the source-to-release path across source integration, builders, cache, artifacts, packaging, and content handoffs.
- Standardized replaceable Windows and Linux builder baselines.
- Defined source integration ownership and automation without exposing proprietary internals.
- Separated DDC and cache concerns from immutable artifact manifests.
- Established client/server compatibility evidence and dedicated-server delivery checks.
- Added DCC validation gates alongside focused studio utilities and runbooks.
Operating model
Map, stabilize, make repeatable, handoff.
Map
Make the complete source-to-release path visible.
Stabilize
Clarify and separate the delivery boundaries that need to recover independently.
Make repeatable
Turn baselines, manifests, compatibility evidence, and checks into an operating path.
Handoff
Leave ownership, utilities, and runbooks ready for the studio to operate.
Qualitative outcomes
- A reproducible delivery path.
- Recoverable workers.
- Traceable artifacts.
- An explicit compatibility and promotion boundary.
- Clearer ownership and runbooks.
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