I was reminded late that my scheduled 45 minute talk was actually a 90 minute talk so I was struggling a bit last weekend to get enough content in place so I didn’t leave a lot of dead air.  And since I’ve been trying to do all of my speaking gigs in the Presentation Zen style (amzn), getting content together meant finding/making relevant graphics in addition to the actual Agile content I was presenting.  Thus far, the Zen style of presenting has met with favorable reviews so I’ll keep doing it,  but man is it a lot of work. At an hour-and-a-half, it’s probably the longest presentation I’ve done, but I composed it so that it has three standalone pieces of equal length:

• Introduction to Agile
• Introduction to Scrum
• Introduction to FDD

They’re designed for shops that don’t really have a good handle on what Agile is in general, and what some of the specifics of different flavors have a tendency to be.  I picked Scrum and FDD for this discussion because they seem to be on opposite ends of the spectrum with regards to built-in rigor (at least from a metrics standpoint).  Because Zen presentations aren’t designed to stand-on-their own (the slide content is minimal, with the speaker filling in the holes), I’m going to be recording a screen cast of each of the 30 minute segments so that hopefully, the slide deck plus the screen cast will provide a good message.

[EDIT: I've posted the actual presentations on the Downloads page.  Screen cast with the narrative will be forthcoming.]