The Importance of Expressing Ideas
Persuade others that you have a good idea. Present a design so that you get constructive feedback. Learn how to handle advice and deflect/diffuse invalid criticisms, how to present ideas to diverse audiences and how to "sell" the benefits of designs to management and business types.
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock 
A well-known and respected object practitioner, Rebecca practices what she teaches: she is president of Wirfs-Brock Assosciates, IEEE Software's Design Columnist and her many activities have popularized the use of informal techniques and thinking tools for architects, designers and analysts.
She is a past board member of the Agile Alliance and co-founder of the Agile Open Northwest Conference.
Lead author of Object Oriented Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations (2003) and the classic Designing Object-Oriented Software (1990).
In this course, you'll learn to:
- Plot a design story
- Use techniques to increase emphasis
- Order a story's topics from most to least fundamental
- Choose an order to tell a story based on the audience and context
- Determine an appropriate storytelling strategy and format
Language: English
Level
To participate in The Art of Telling Your Design Story, no particular professional skills are needed beyond the requirements. Participants will acquire skills during the sessions of the course.
Who is the course for:
- Developers
- Testers
- Architects
Learn by Doing
Learn by doing. Explore concepts and techniques and develop basic skills. Class is roughly 60% lecture and 40% exercises followed by review.
