Post-Mortem

SCaLE 14x

Post-Q&A exercise feedback
- Positive
  - Appreciated that they were split into small groups so they weren't put on spot in front of everyone
- Negative
  - In the talk description, should not there will be participatory group exercises that involve speaking
During lunch feedback
- The topic cards were all fairly technical in nature & someone who was not technical said she did not feel like she belonged there because of that
  - There were less technical topic cards, but due to snafus during printing, they didn't, uh, print.
  - We're going to try to replace as many cards as possible with entirely non-technical things as possible ("how to boil water," "how to tell what side of your car the gas tube is", etc.)
Evaluation form feedback (so far)
- "The organization of topics was really great and each topic was covered at a useful level of detail. Thanks!"
- "Great tone, really useful tips, I'd iterate further on the exercises. They were useful but felt a little rough on execution."
- "Good content, I felt that the presentation was well worth my time. However, instructions for some of the group exercises were a little unclear."

Speaker notes need to be finished
Explain exercise rules before we split people up (they'll be less distracted & more likely to get the rules in their brains)
There are too many exercises for the time allotted
- May be able to do 2 in each Exercise section, with the optional Q&A game
- We'll have to think about which 4 exercises to do
  - Audience exercise seems difficult for people to grok
  - Topic sentence is almost something people need to sit & write down
    - We'd rather scrap it, really
- Distill rules to ordered list on a slide
  - Can have on the screen while explaining it
  - Also: less printing
VMB wants to add more graphics to her slides
Follow-up on the survey
- Are demos rated low for talk contribution because they suck or that they're good but don't contribute to the talk?
- Other things which escape us right now