{"id":279,"date":"2023-10-23T09:29:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T09:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agileonthebeach.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2024-12-23T01:55:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T01:55:57","slug":"tips-for-your-agile-on-the-beach-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Tips for your Agile on the Beach proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year, we\u2019re asked \u2018how do I get my submission accepted for Agile On The Beach?\u2019 Our Call for Proposals report 2023<\/a> showed a total of 35 reviewers, ~270 submissions, ~5800 reviews, and 42 selected sessions. With a 17% chance of acceptance, it\u2019s all about quality!<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re thinking of sending us an experience report, or a workshop, here are some tips from Andy Nesling<\/a>, a multi-year speaker in our Product Design & Management track:<\/p>\n

“Talk about what you\u2019ve experienced, not what you\u2019ve read\u2026 don\u2019t talk about generic techniques without bringing some personal experience.”<\/p>\n

“Make your submission stand out, assume more submissions exist for your topic.”<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t link out to other content, if you can\u2019t make your submission exciting on one page then more pages won\u2019t do it.” (links are actually scrubbed for blind review)<\/p>\n

“Make the submission content exciting, don\u2019t just say how exciting it\u2019ll be on the day.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And here\u2019s some field-by-field advice. Thanks Andy!<\/p>\n

Title
\n“This is half of your sales job, think about it carefully, will it catch the interest of attendees, is it engaging and relevant?”<\/p>\n

Description
\n“Set out your stall, describe the story you want to lead attendees through, what problems did you encounter, what were your successes and failures?”<\/p>\n

Takeaways
\n“What are the 3-5 things you want attendees to do differently, or know more about, once they have left the room?”<\/p>\n

Outline
\n“Tell reviewers how it\u2019ll all work behind the scenes, give them confidence you\u2019ve thought about how to stitch together different ideas.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And finally, here are some top secret guidelines our speaker committee – Steve Smith, Gwen Diagram, and Chris O\u2019Dell – share with our reviewer panel:<\/p>\n

Steve has his Title Takeaways Outline Rule – \u2018tell us the attendee benefits\u2019. A good submission links a title\/takeaways\/outline showing what and how attendees will learn.<\/p>\n

Gwen has her Interactive Workshop Rule – \u2018tell us how the group will collaborate\u2019. A good workshop submission says how people will work together to learn something.<\/p>\n

Chris has her O\u2019Dell Rule – \u2018tell us what your list of things actually is\u2019. A good submission that mentions a list actually says what the list will be.<\/p>\n

We hope this helps you. See you on the beach!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year, we\u2019re asked \u2018how do I get my submission accepted for Agile On The Beach?\u2019 Our Call for Proposals report 2023 showed a total of 35 reviewers, ~270 submissions, ~5800 reviews, and 42 selected sessions. With a 17% chance of acceptance, it\u2019s all about quality! Whether you\u2019re thinking of sending us an experience report, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.agileonthebeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}