Disclaimer: I've never really given a public talk so I can't speak from experience, but the following advice was given at one I attended.
The talk was on general Agile approaches outside of technology, and a central point of the talk focussed on the pyramid technique. Perhaps if you're worried about timing you may want to bring an aspect of that into your talk. The idea being that the talk is ordered in most to least important points. That way if you run out of time, you have already been over the focal points of your talk, if you have extra time you could always have summary slides to reiterate or take questions. You may find it more fruitful to think in terms of making sure you get the important parts in, rather fitting everything into X minutes. But as I said, this was advice I heard, which I haven't had a chance to try. Hope it all goes well for you. ~ Graham >Great advice. Thanks. Another question occurred to me today. Is there a > good method (aside from practice) to target a certain timeframe in which to > fit a presentation? My intuition tells me that this might not lend itself > to generalization since there are plenty of factors that might affect it > (e.g. topic complexity, speaker's tempo, presence of demos, etc). However, > I'd be interested if anyone has any rules of thumb that you use to turn X > amount of content (chapters, sections, etc) into a presentation of Y > minutes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
