How would you make the conference perfect?

  • It might help if the room limits were "imposed" to avoid overcrowding
  • Time between dinner and last session of day 1 was too long
  • Not so much time between last presentation and dinner
  • Add an open space at the end
  • Have coffee even at 17h
  • Sleeping at Tulip sucks!
  • Have more time for BoFs/Open Space to accomodate spin-offs; ligh the fire if there's a spark somewhere
  • Keep it like this
  • More Open spaces
  • More technically, skills oriented (Software Craftsmanship. More balanced program
  • Some session the AC was making it really cold
  • Stay in this hotel instead of Tulip
  • Not possible, but the choices you have to make. Ahhhh !
  • I really have no idea... Keep on going!
  • Provide fruit during breaks
  • The rooms could have been warmer
  • The glasses weren't changed in the room for the scoond session (at least on day one)
  • On the first night we ended up on a table right away from everyone else so didn't help to initially meet others. We then missed the painting workshop as we didn't yet know where the rooms were (signs may have helped from reception)
  • More real experience things, like pair-porgramming
  • Pseudo / Game "Code"-ing like a year (or 2) ago with Haskell functional programming "game" and presentation: puzzle pieces represented data or an operations. Focus on underlying idea, not syntax
  • Somehow I often had the impression I don't really know what a session is going to be about from the abstracts
  • Less Aikido
  • The ability to clone myself so I can attend multiple sessions at the same time
  • Provide soda, cola and juice. The climate was hot, people
  • Plenary presentation by better presenters
  • Keep it this way, it's great!
  • Run some open space on a third day
  • Last session of the day: everybody tired. Make it shorter, start earlier on the last day
  • No tech session in the last slot
  • Fruits and juices in the hall
  • Hard to say. A clock in the hall?
  • Leave time for a BoF as opposed to running them in parallel with the sessions. Also known as "open space conference". A mix of both would be good
  • It was so good I have no suggestions
  • Drop the "you got to have a card to follow a session" rule. In 2 sessions I've been in people have had to go because someone - who was too late - had a session card and "claimed" his seat. This doesn't feel right
  • (Some) presenters should improve their presentation skills
  • It's more and more difficult to come up with improvements
  • Somewhat less participatns would make the sessions a little smoother - 40 people in a room of 25 feels a little crowded
  • Put a base of attendees online, searchable by country, industry... like at the Amsterdam Scrum Gathering
  • More games and tools
  • Actually, I think it's already perfect
  • A shorter break between end of sessions and dinner. Finish earlier on Friday
  • Communicate the hotel checkout times more clearly
  • Offer actual BoF slots (only BoFs)
  • Better walls in conference rooms. You couldn't tape anything into walls and the magnet system was too high up
  • Choose bigger conference rooms. I was in 4 sessions where the room was too small
  • Make the Aikido optional and not part of the opening sessions
  • Add the room on the Kanban cards
  • More Aikido exercises: 10 minutes instead of 5
  • Ever more coaches
  • Less ceremony at end of day
  • Have all the presentations/videos downloadable from XP Days website, including links to tools/trainings
  • Video taping of sessions
  • Don't put the interesting sessions together :-)
  • It already is ;-)
  • More workshop and interactive stuff in the morning as well. Now all the interesting stuff was in the afternoon. Also longer slots for workshops if they require it
  • Location of the cards
  • Some sessions too crowded
  • More advanced sessions
  • Looks already greta! Don't know how to make it better
  • Keep people in the same place
  • Sessions tend to be too theoretical so I would suggest to organise a role game in the 3 first hours faking a work situation with a team (fake company, fake short mission). And then all the sessions would refer to the morning session
  • Something else to drink than coffee and tea
  • It is already perfect :-)
  • Make webcasts about sessions
  • Put a big clock somewhere on a wall
  • Video of sessions
  • Resolve payment issue with Jagershorst hotel upfront
  • Don't change anything. Maybe make the Yoga thing optional
  • Limited number of people in a room
  • Room names on Kanban cards
  • Opening explains Kanban system and perfection game
  • It already is! (except the carpet, it makes me dizzy)
  • More rooms at the venue so that everyone can stay in one place
  • Drop the yoga
  • Some program slots had lots of interesting session at the same time, (first & last sessions). Friday 2nd session in the morning seemed less "high quality"
  • Organise it in the summer outside
  • More games
  • Make it more FUN
  • More accessible location
  • Better balance technical subjects - organisation subjects
  • Water & fruit juice in the lunch (there was only coffee and tea)
  • A few more innovative and/or controversial sessions
  • Session feedback per session, not at random
  • Floor plan of the location of the rooms in the conference package, so we don't have to look at the sime time to the small maps on the wall. Alternative: give the rooms a number
  • Add a bell for the presenters in each room: almost everybody brought one, so it would make sense to have one as part of the room setup
  • An indication of the level of the session: beginner / middle / advanced
  • To be at the conference hotel! Would have loved to rest and go back to the dinner, but couldn't
  • More things to get people to mix together. Get strangers to talk + share experience
  • There is the danger that XP Days will become something for Agile "experts" only. Maybe add more "beginners" sessions or organise an "XP Day for dummies" (no copyright :-)) or something
  • For sessions with a participant limit, also limit the number of Kanban cards. Now there were people with a card, but couldn't attend because the session was full.