What I like
- Good presentation and slides
- Well selected set of techniques
- Practical and usable
- Will be useful as soon as Monday
- Good link with fellow Agile practitioners at my table
- Good flow, good balance between "theory" and interaction
- Nice tools
- "SImple", compact
- Good expertise of the the presenters
- Humor!
- Hands on
- Sensible and simple
- The four methods to think about your problem
- Switching between workshop and presentation
- Presenting skills
- More broadly applicable than just for architecture
- Great practices
- The exercises
- The interactivity
- Some new tools to think about using to communicate with stakeholders
- Great presentation skills
- Good link rules/exercises
- Focus on communication
- Focus on communication tools
- Practicing
- Interesting
- Techniques can be used right away
- Some good techniques
- Good idea to apply communication & problem solving tools to architecture fights
- Not technical
- Exercises
- Good slides
- Good content
- Very practical, interactive
- Good techniques
- Learned to use drawings, sketches and stories to detach from a context to start thinking from a different angle
- Communication tools to get the bigger picture common goals, to think creatively => what does success look like? It was very powerful
- Focus on communication & value for architects
- Interactive part
- Ways to talk about your situations and tools to realise your solution
- Fun, interactive collaboration
- Lots of effective and short exercises keep the session lively
- Interesting methods clearly explained!
To improve
- 7 minutes instead of 5
- A bit more time
- More references to books about the content
- Maybe too much content for the available time? Too much content for participants to assimilate?
- A round of beer at the end :-)
- Give some use case cases and discuss them in a bigger group
- Apply real architecture examples
- Correct synopsis and title
- Make it relate more the job of an architect or make it broader and relate it to other roles as well
- Storytelling in 5 minutes is very short to get across the power of this method
- I did not expect this content: "softer" than expected
- Slides could be more readable
- Longer?
- More techniques, less workshop
- Abstract didn't match the content well
- The schedule
- More examples from the real world (e.g. real story instead of imaginary stories)
- Based on the abstract I was expecting something else. I expected tools or ideas fro improving architecture, not communications stuff.
- Stay on schedule!!
- I would like to have heard Sander more, it was clear that Gerard was the "manager" :-)
- Has not a lot to do with "architecture" (and even less with "enterprise architecture"), is broader than architecture
- 10 principles -> 4 techniques !
- Overlap of Solutions-Based Thinking with session by Pierluigi
- Timing
- It's not really specific for architecture. It can be used in any role, so the title could be better.
- Extra link to architecture
- A lot of material for one hour