{"id":1128,"date":"2014-08-05T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tekhead.org\/blog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2016-03-06T22:02:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T22:02:25","slug":"my-vmug-presentation-and-feedforward-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhead.it\/blog\/2014\/08\/my-vmug-presentation-and-feedforward-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My VMUG Presentation and FeedForward Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been a regular attendee of the London VMUG for the past 2-3 years and earlier this year decided it was about time I pulled my finger out and try to repay some of the awesome knowledge I\u2019ve gained from other community members. I started small with a 15-minute slot on my Intel NUC home lab. I present fairly regularly as part of my day job, but mainly to smaller groups of 5-10 people, not 40-50+, which is definitely a different experience (see here<\/a>)!<\/p>\n

A few months later, Simon Gallagher (VMUG leader and Lego Fanboi) asked if I wanted to do a full session. In hindsight agreeing to do a session in the same two-week period when we had our financial year end at work and my family moved house, was perhaps ambitious to say the least!<\/p>\n

In preparation for the session, the inimitable Mike Laverick very kindly offered to provide me with some #FeedForward<\/a>, for a second time<\/a>! Feed Forward<\/a> (or #Feed4ward<\/a>) is a great initiative started by a number of well-known community members including Mike, who saw the need to provide feedback to people in advance of their community VMUG sessions to\u00a0hopefully give confidence and\u00a0encourage them\u00a0to present.<\/p>\n

In my case, although I made a number of changes to my deck from the session, the biggest change was actually to approach the subject matter from a completely different direction. I had originally planned a simple intro to storage design, but when I ran it through with my colleagues, I bored even myself! I also had WAY too many slides\u2026 Bearing in mind that a #LonVMUG group tend to be pretty knowledgeable, this was probably not going to cut the mustard! At Mike\u2019s suggestion, I instead concentrated on the pitfalls of storage design, and anecdotes about issues I had seen \/ experienced (whilst trying not to bash any individual vendors).<\/p>\n

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@alexgalbraith<\/a> “I’m not bashing vendors, I’m just a really grumpy Scotsman” #lonvmug<\/a>\u2014 Mike Laverick (@Mike_Laverick) July 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n