1. Xbox Console – Localization at the speed of service
Gregor Kneitz Microsoft Xbox Localization

2. The Agenda The Question The Answer The Model The Impact The Management
The Mind Shift
… the bad and the ugly
The Result

3. The Question How do you localize for an agile organization?
Monthly release cadence
Content sensitivity
Hardware dependencies
GUI & VUI
Limited budget

4. The Answer Party like it’s 1999! Onsite Translators
Onsite Native Speaking Testers
Small FTE team
Vendor staffed Engineering and Project Management

5. Xbox Platform Localization Model
Ownership
Execution
Operation
5 FTE
Strategy
Process
Innovation
10 v- IPE/IPM
Managed Service
Project Mgmt / Eng
21 v- onsite Translators
23 v- onsite Testers (native Speakers)

6. The Impact
Security
Quality
Speed

7. What is fast? 12 hours E2E! Source pickup from build system
Handoff to translators
Handback with verification
Buddy-builds
Full functional and linguistic test
Bug triage
Bug fix
Verification and check-in

8. The Management Single(ish) Sourcing Managed Services
Flexible Resourcing
Project based billing

9. The Mind Shift Partner vs. Supplier Fix vs variable cost
Yes! vs. Uh … Maybe?

10. … the bad and the ugly Remaining challenges: Scalability Tooling
Automation

11. The Result

12. Q & A
Who has the first question?