Some of you may have heard this before, but this might be of use/interest to you. It could be of especially of interest to those of you who are entering Dare. It formed a basis for what we saw as important issues in our project last year.
Its a lecture by Mark Cerny on the Production / Pre-production method. It can be found at:
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/slides/cerny/index.htm
I had some problems playing it, but if you go to the porblems link, you can download the audio.