Just seeing the snippets from #agiletesting is making me miss live events. Not because of seeing people (though I miss the too) but because actual presentations are so much better than Zoom presos.
Not that Zoom presos are bad - they enable lots of things that would otherwise be impossible - but they impose different constraints on the speaker, and because we’re still immature at this, they are not all terribly fruitful.
Zoom (as a stand in for the category of software) makes the habit of presenting to the slide deck so much worse due to the default nature of screen sharing. It removes the speakers ability to read and respond to the room.
There are ways to mitigate some of these things, but they tend to require knowledge, extra tech and other complications, and we don’t really have a playbook for what works.
We’re trying. But I never thought I’d miss “person on stage in front of their slides” as much as I do.
We’re trying. But I never thought I’d miss “person on stage in front of their slides” as much as I do.
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