Resist Schoolyard Peer Pressure
Only because other conferences are doing it, you don’t have to – the benefit to your conference and its community…
Category: Basics
Don’t try to fix the symptom
Conferences are complex with breathtaking numbers of dependencies. Resolving a tiny symptom, with a possibly easy fix, can cause much…
Quantitative Solutions don’t solve Qualitative Problems
A reflex to problems often seem to be “do more of x”. Let’s look at an example: “Not happy with…
Conferences become good because of the boring stuff
We are tempted to think that conferences become good because of great ideas, novel concepts etc. While that is important,…
Nothing happens on its own
Everything needs someone behind it making it happen, at least checking that it is on the way. Even if it…