I’ve received requests for the slide deck that I presented with Dave Wickert at Microsoft TechEd / BI Conference last week.
Well, here ya go, the whole slide deck right here:
Yeah, that’s right. One slide.
You see, it was an “Interactive” session, which is basically “we jam people in a room and they pepper us with questions for 90 minutes.” The ground rules given to us were “1-2 slides to set the tone, and then after that it’s all audience-directed.”
Going in, I had mixed feelings about that format. I mean, there’s a real danger that people won’t be prepared to ask questions, and that the conversation won’t get going. In fact, in many other Interactive sessions, the speakers decided to ignore the ground rules altogether and simply present. But it seemed like a potentially entertaining approach, and hey, Dave and I were so busy going in that this minimal preparation thing sounded pretty damn good. So we rolled the dice.
Well, it turned out EXTREMELY well. We started 15 minutes early, ran over the end time, and were answering fantastic, high quality questions non stop. It was awesome.
The bad news is, I don’t have a good way to share that discussion after the fact. We basically would need to do it again, and sadly, they did not record the session.
So for now, all I can really do is offer the teaser above.
