Thread by @jseiden

Last year, @Boogie and I began teaching a new class:

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I was reminded of the first time we taught together, and how we've learned, both as teachers, and about the material itself. /1

@Boogie I think our first class together was in 2011. (Let's say +/- 1 year.) We were luck to land a 12-class gig to teach #leanUX to a client with offices around the world. The gig went well and was expanded. We probably taught that 2-day class 20+ times over the next year or so. /2

@Boogie To get to have so many iterations is a blessing really. (I guess standup comics know this.) You get to try your material, get feedback, respond to questions, see what works and what doesn't. /3

Jeff and I taught every class together, which means that when he was leading a module, I was taking notes, and vice-versa. We kept a stack of index cards on our teacher's desk at the front of the room, and we recorded every note on a card. /4

At the end of every day, we'd review our notes. We'd change material. Change sequence. Add material based on student questions. Revise instructions that were confusing. /5

We also asked every student to complete a quick survey at the end of every class. We asked what essentially a retro-style set of questions: what worked, what didn't work, what was confusion? What should we keep, what should we change? /6

In this way, we revised and refined the class. By the time we began working on our first book, Lean UX, we had built so much mindshare, and were so clear on how to teach the material, that the actual writing process went pretty quickly. /7

Now, in 2020, we're offering a new class that we've been refining for a number of months. This class, our Product Discovery For Agile Teams class, is going through the same process. We've wanted for a while to do some things that our in-person class couldn't do. /8

We wanted a class that was broader in scope than Lean UX. We've wanted to be able to reach people who can't travel to us, and who are located in places that are hard for us to get to. (Hello Southern Hemisphere! Hello Asia!) /9

We've wanted to create a class that allowed strangers to build community with one aanother around this material. /10

We also wanted to experiment with a "flipped classroom" model and otherwise take advantage of some things you can do in remote learning that you can't do in 1-day and 2-day workshops. /11

Anyway, we're having a great time building this class, and are really excited about this iteration of it. If you haven't taken one of our classes, I hope you'll join us at this one. /end

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