Nick N.
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Valerio did an exceptional job with…with balancing teaching the material, facilitating our learning through mini-exercises, and answering questions.
Valerio did an exceptional job with balancing teaching the material, facilitating our learning through mini-exercises, providing examples / anecdotes / context and answering questions. There were one or two occasions where the examples / anecdotes / context may have gone off topic or a bit longer than needed, but this is a relatively minor issue. Better to have robust anecdotes than none at all. Recommendations: ---------------------- (1) For each section on Miro, in addition to adding a time box, add the Workbook page #s for those who want to follow along in the workbook. This allows one to compare, take notes &/or highlight the workbook, etc. Having the page #s reduces the time for finding the corresponding material. This is especially true because we do not follow the workbook sequentially. There is no issue with that. Simply adding the page #s will help those who choose to follow along the workbook. (2) In the "preparation" emails instructors send before the course commences, add a recommendation or a tip to use, if feasible, multiple screens and or computers. Rationale -- improved learning occurs when one can see three items concurrently: 1. The Zoom session (both the chat and the person speaking) 2. Miro 3. Workbook Having one computer (or screen) results in having to "flip" to each of each of those pages with the potential to "lose" something. (3) For the Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) audience, ensure the instructor is tracking the differences with the BAH specific course on Agile (NOTE: this is not a BAH template or guidebook). BAH has a "BAH Agile Foundations Course" (run by KaiRise) that results in a student becoming an International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) Certified Professional (ICP). The BAH Agile Foundations Course Student Workbook lists the following: "The Daily Standup 3 Questions: - What did you complete yesterday? - What are going to complete today? - What's impeding or clocking your?" Valerio provided good arguments why the above is not the best approach and suggesting many others. Valerio, or other instructors, knowing this can potentially change the approach to this topic to reduce potential confusion with a BAH audience. (4) Maintain the more frequent breaks adjustment we made. On day 1 we went 90 minutes before taking a break. Valerio adjusted the breaks for the next couple of days (in some cases event-driven, vice time-driven) and it was a significant improvement with attention span, snack/restroom breaks, etc. (5) In the "prep" email add a link or attachment of a glossary and acronym list of any terms and/or acronyms the instructor and/or material will cover throughout the course (e.g. Jira, PBIs). This would be very useful for all, but especially for those without any agile/scrum background. (6) Quizzes. Do NOT do break-out rooms for quizzes. Let individuals take them and then bring up any questions for the entire group. OVERALL: a very well organized and structured course with an exceptional instructor / facilitator. The above recommendations are potential minor improvements on the fringes.