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Ok, everyone. I was thinking this morning, and became excited about this idea for a session: Experience Reports. Would you, as participants, like a session about reporting out your experiences succeeding (or not) with some idea, exercise, practice, technique, etc. from your work over the past year or so? You don't have to use something you tried from an AYE conference, although I would like that the best. If you're concerned about speaking, don't be. I was thinking of this session as more of a roundtable. If you're still nervous about presenting your ideas, I'm offering my services to help you organize, present, or to just use my pre-speaking relaxation techniques.

So, anyone interested in an Experience Reports session? --JohannaRothman 2002.06.11

Yes, absolutely. To some extent, we all use the WIKI that way, but face-to-face is better. Having said that, the (only) real problem with AYE is that you can only be in one session at a time and there are always way more good sessions than slots. SherryHeinze 2002.06.15

How about an AYE Retrospective? I don't see a problem airing what worked and what didn't. The more viewpoints, the better. ;-)
Nynke & Becky should be interested for their Euro ventures. --BobLee 2002.07.13

Bob, Can you say more about what you envision for an AYE retrospective? From a host/planning perspective, we do look back on the year though not always in t formal facilitated session. EstherDerby 071402

Esther, doing "inner circle" retrospectives loses the input and reflection of the wider set of stakeholders. It's too easy to hit "group think" on some issues. I think that a post-conference retrospective via Wiki would be fine. Sharing the retrospective openly helps set expectation in your stakeholders. This is how we used to do retrospectives on the IDMS User Week conferences - it took a lot of load off the volunteers that ran the conference. BobLee 2002.07.14 Happy Bastille day, all!

Bob, in my experience with any facilitation you get different insights depending on who is in the room. And sometimes there is a valid reason for holding a retrospective with a certain group of people who may have a unique involvement in a project (any project, not just AYE).

Thanks for the clarification on what you are suggesting.

ED 071402

AnArchitectureSession - I believe that there is energy surrounding doing another architecture session in 2002. I might even be the bottleneck in getting one setup. BobKing

I'm glad C15. WRITE? RIGHT!! (SessionTwo015) is back this year. Writing is one of my recently discovered strengths that I am working on improving. - ShannonSeverance

Hey, Shannon, that's great. I'm looking forward to seeing you in this session (and in general). Only thing is, I didn't realize the session number had changed, so Johanna better make sure I know where to be when. NaomiKarten