Sessions to go around
I participated in (re)writing a bunch of discovery session and tutorial proposals for agile2006. That turned out to be interesting, as all but one of them got selected, amidst fairly stiff competition. We decided not to run the xp game – running too many sessions is bad for the quality of individual sessions, and there are similar sessions in the programme already.
As this conference is going to be large, we tried to let our sessions scale to larger audiences, amongst other things by having more co-hosts per session than normal. That leads to a web of sessions, where some sessions share almost the same set of hosts, but not quite. After acceptance, I had a hard time deciding how to give my best effort in running the sessions. I decided to take responsibility for running the sessions where I am first or second organizer, and support other sessions in a ‘best effort’ way, where I’ll do whatever I can based on time and energy that I have.
Participating in many proposals with many co-hosts is slightly confusing. But fun.
I’ll be co-hosting
- The drawing carousel – a pair programming eXperience
- Simple tools for communication – a Balancing Act
- Systemsthinking workshop – using the Diagram Of Effects (DOE) to effectively change your work environment.
Together with Marc Evers, hopefully supported by (in various configurations, depending on the session and what suits our co-hosts in the schedule) Laurent Bossavit, Emmanuel Gaillot, Rachel Davies and Lynne Azpeitia.
I’ll be supporting in preparation and/or running (tool words is in the same slot as systems thinking unfortunately):
- Tracer Bullets (an experiential session on feedback) by Rob Westgeest and Tjakko Kleinhuis
- Tool Words, Weapon Words by Laurent Bossavit and Emmanuel Gaillot
- Writing on the Walls (about the use of information radiators) by Laurent Bossavit and Emmanuel Gaillot
Writing on the Walls is new, Tracer Bullets revamped – I haven’t had the good fortune of attending it so far.
