Craig is at YOW! Conference and catches up with Aino Vonge Corry who is one of our very few repeat guests on the Agile Revolution. She describes herself as someone who puts speakers on stage, makes developers communicate and messes with the heads of students!

• Part of the YOW! conference organising committee
• Important to find examples that relate to all of the students in the class (not just a subset)
• Microservice lectures – no more than 15 minutes lecture and then a learning activity
• If there is interactivity then there is a reason to turn up to a live lecture
• YOW! 2015 talk “A Comment on How We Learn“
• Need to respect and acknowledge that other people take in knowledge at different paces, this is important in activities that we give people time to think
• People need to relate ideas to the things they are doing now to take new ideas in
• Working memory takes in new information and as well as decoding for long term memory
• Research says that we can think about 7 +/- 2 things at a time, but newest research says we can only think about 4 things at a time!
• Chunk new content or information and then allow people time to process and think
• Multitasking is a huge misunderstanding, if you are doing two things at once you are only doing them at 40% rather than one thing at 100%, this is a huge problem for people working in computer science
• Try to figure out your learning preferences, realise you can’t chunk a whole lot of new information at once and ensure you sleep because without sleep you cannot learn effectively
• Interesting things happening in the culture space right now, Dan North’s YOW! 2015 presentation “Delivery Mapping: Turning the Lights On“
• Polyglot agile highlighted in Craig’s YOW! 2015 talk “40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes“
• Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility) (Dave Thomas)

TheAgileRevolution-122 (31 minutes)