Yves Hanoulle A member of Paircoaching.net

This week I have presented “Tips to create a self-organizing team” at SDC 2010.

I loved the conference. I promised the organizers to send them a perfection game. As I think other conferences can learn from this, I’m doing it online.

The rules of the perfection game can be found here:

http://liveingreatness.com/files/core-protocols-3.03.html#perfection-game

I give this conference a 7 out of 10

What I liked was:

- the concept of the conversation corner

- The conversation corner looked great

- the name of the conversation corner

- the colored cushions in the conversation corner

- it has grown so much in only two editions

- the nice atmosphere

- great set of speakers with great interaction

- the lack of speakers hideaway place that “forced” the speakers to meet in the conversation corner

- the nice organizers

- the small speech of the major of Götenborg

- the fact he walked around before to see what it was all about

- he talked about what he saw in his small speech

- the different stages

- the openspace agenda with postit’s

- the bookstore

- the birthday song for Diana

- Diana being able to deliver a keynote after the song

- the different speakers mentioning each others talks

- the fact that already now a lot of the presentations are available for download

- pictures where taken

- my room had a clock at the end so it was easy for me to know how I was doing timewise

- the quality of the people helping out in my “presentor” room to help me setup my stage (computer, microphone, water, counter etc…)

- doc giving out facilitators patterns and anti-patterns carddeck

- quality of the slides of the presentations I saw

To give it a ten it would need to change this

- the conversation corner would not be cut of from the rest of the space (break down the wall)

- the fishbowl sessions would have been real fishbowl’s instead of panels

- more diversity of the food at the dinner tuesday night (only one possibility)

- more diversity in drinks at breaks (water and coffee is not enough for me)

- more clarity about the Tuesday evening session of Kent Beck

- less twitter and more interaction in the rooms

- have an offline twitter wall like in xp Days benelux

- have a bookstore that accepts (foreign?) Visa cards.

- ask authors upfront about books that link to their presentation (to sell in the bookstore)

- encourage participants to interacted more with eachother (by doing some kind of game)

- have a track for agile games

- make sure that different speaker talking about a similar talks are not scheduled at the same time

- ask speakers of similar talks to do them together (to create interaction on stage and lead the audience by example)

- find topics that speakers don’t agree on, and create a panel/fishbowl on that

- let participants propose topics for talks

- the pictures would be online quickly after a session is finished

- have a timer counting down for each presentation, so every presentor saw how much time he still had without having to remember the end time

- add twitter names to speakers info

- If I had received logo of the conference so I could use it in my slides.