July 22, 2010 AutoMapper, DevMeeting, Presentation, Success
Today I performed developer’s meeting on AutoMapper. I would say that it went good, but I did not really enjoy it and will explain why. But I do not regret doing this presentation and will explain why.
Why am I upset of today’s presentation delivery?
Not so many people got interested in theme, that I’ve decided to present. There were about 10 or less developers in conference room. I really expected to have bigger audience and had prepared to speak to other division of our software business unit. But I believe there are some reasons why I did not get many listeners.
Few important thoughts for presenters that encounter the same
Never be disappointed by the number of attendees.. at least at the beginning, so this will not decrease quiality of your speach.
If topic of you speech is not really popular it doesn’t mean that you should discount its value.
If topic is indeed simple don’t neglect your preparations. For some reason I even wasn’t a bit nervous before presentation, as I’m usually are and I don’t find this to be good.
Take a look around, you probably will see those who are interested in topic and those who are simply excited by your presentations. Special thank to today’s attendees, without you I would have to talk to walls.
For future pay more attention on actuality and popularity of the topic. I personally going to create monkeysurvey to get that information.
With smaller audience you get more feedbacks. Why? Easily, they feel more relaxed and you have more time to allocate to each of them. In today’s presenation I got so many interesting questions and figured them out for myself and for audience online, while writing code. That was amazing.
Try to understand those who did not participate. Probably they counted to be more reasonable to spend that hour on some urgent issues or they discounted topic, since they are sure that will not need AutoMapper. And if they even will need it, it is quite possible to learn it in amount of couple of hours.
Still be proud of yourself. This is must be, otherwise you will lose confidence which costs a lot.
Presentation
For my presentation I’ve used already existing posts on AutoMapper, also for the end of presentation I had real world usage examples.
And here is presentation itself:
View more presentations from Andriy Buday.
Don’t forget to check out my article on AutoMapper here.
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yeap, you 6-slide presentation is damn cool intriguing :))
I wonder if your presentation was part of your job or was it just your initiative?
Nope, it is not part of my job. It is part of my roadmap :)
Interesting in one thing: You write many posts, tweets, presentations etc… Are you have a lot of free time? Aren't you working? I don't think so. You working bad? I mean you are sitting in the chair and write the posts on your PC at work. What about projects and others responsibilities?…Can you explain, plz..?
Roman, thanks for the cool question. Maybe many people are interested in this.
There are few things:
1. If you will take a look on time, when I post my thoughts, it is often after 11 pm. Definitely not working time :)
2. Yes I spent some time at work on my tweets and presentations. BUT, I do not spent any time on useless crappy IM chat, youtube and things like that, unless it brings me some learning value. You know what I mean.
3. Also I think that twitter is not useless if you know how to use it. For example I'm getting feedback from people, who created AutoMapper (I'm using it at work), from person, who created cool screencasts on NHibernate and etc. How? Because I tweet about those things and it helps me work more effectively.
4. I really think that with being active in learning I start coding and working at light speed so I have some time for posts.
5. I do not work bad. How can I work bad if I know theory? Besides I got extremely good feedback from my managers on my performance.
Just found for myself that I fill-in time for building project with reading blogs from GoogleReader.
I don't want to be complaining bitch, but while you are spending build time on reading blogs, you are distracting yourself from work and later you have to spent some more time to focus on your work again
so it's really more time not on work :)
and as a side-note: light-speed != extra quality ;) so don't overestimate yourself ;)
Thanks for constructive comments.
Switching to reading blogs is better than switching to youtube :)
And keeping focus on your current work is even more better ;)
Yes… the most productive way to work.
Don't think that I never have had 3-5 hours work without single break being concentrated.
I never thought so, I'd rather think that you can work for 10 hours without breaks, than that you can spend time so uselessly :)