Talk to every participant prior to the workshop
- Have direct conversation
- Get an idea of everyone’s perspective
- Good way to set expectations with the participants about what they’re about to learn
Research about the domain
- Read tons of things about the domain in which you’re doing the workshop
- Come up with detailed documents which explains your understanding about the domain, and share it with everyone
Prepare the venue beforehand
- Always make sure that the venue has everything that’s required to run a good quality workshop
- Write down the agenda and place it on the table before the participants come in
- What we did - Write a personal note to the 20 people who’re attending and placed it on the table
There’s no such thing called open-discussion
- Especially with a team more than 10, discussions are not really that efficient
- Write down the tasks on the board along with its corresponding time
- Explain all the methods/frameworks you use and make sure everyone is aligned towards that
Always do a quick write-up
- Make sure you sit down and write down everything that happened as pointers while you’re there in the room
- Send an email to everyone about what happened today, and what are the next steps
- Make sure all the tools and resources are mentioned in the mail thread