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Positive evaluation for ODTUG 2007 presentation

10 July 2007 at 12:13 CEST | In Forms, ODTUG 2007, Oracle, Other, Personal, Web components | 4 Comments

I just got the evaluations for my presentation at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2007 on integrating Oracle Forms into Oracle ADF Faces. I must say that I’m pleasantly surprised. Two thirds of the audience rated the session 5 out of 5, and one third 4 out of 5. Not a bad score. I especially appreciate the comments people fill in on the evaluation form. Sometimes this gives a much better indication of how people felt. For me, all the comments are positive although one attendant noted it might bee too technical for some developers. This was also my fear, but as it turns out 100% indicated the technical level was spot on.

Again, I’m very happy and proud of this positive evaluation for my first ever presentation at an international conference. This makes ODTUG 2007 a memorable moment for me: my first ever paper won the Editor’s Choice Award and I got a very positive evaluation for my presentation.

The detailed results are below:

Overall Session Rating

	1 (low)	2	3	4	5 (high)	avg
Overall Session Rating	-	-	-	33.3%	66.7%	4.67

Evaluations

	1 (low)	2	3	4	5 (high)	avg
Presentation Skills
Ability to communicate	-	-	-	32.1%	67.9%	4.68
Use of visual aids	-	-	-	32.1%	67.9%	4.68
Readability of visual aids	-	-	-	25.0%	75.0%	4.75
Organization of material	-	-	-	28.6%	71.4%	4.71
Attentiveness to questions and comments	-	-	-	24.0%	76.0%	4.76
Content
Knowledge of material	-	-	-	10.7%	89.3%	4.89
Newness of material	-	-	-	25.0%	75.0%	4.75
Technical relevance of material	-	-	-	17.9%	82.1%	4.82
Information has value for my work	-	-	3.6%	39.3%	57.1%	4.54
Content matched written description	-	-	-	32.1%	67.9%	4.68
Information was technical in nature, not a ’sales pitch’	-	-	-	17.9%	82.1%	4.82

Technical Level

	Too Much	Appropriate	Too Little
Technical Level	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

Comments

What were the strengths of this presentation?

Documentation
Innovative and ver applicatble to current development.
Possible alternative for keeping forms around.
Tech level and code snippets
Amazing!
Great technical how-to content
Very detailed, clear, held together well
Great job!
Very practical for my needs.
Useful, novel material

What were the weaknesses of this presentation?

Probably too tehnical for some developers

What recommendations do you have for improvement of this presentation?

Thank you! Great stuff

Update 11 july 2007: I asked ODTUG if they were planning on publishing the average of all sessions combined. This could give an idea of how a session scored compared to the other sessions. ODTUG is not publishing these results, but the could tell me that scores below 4.0 need work, between 4.0 and 4.3 are very good, and above 4.3 are excellent. So, with an overall score of 4.67, I can be satisfied.

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Oracle white paper features Eurotransplant

3 July 2007 at 16:04 CEST | In Forms, Oracle, Other, SOA | 4 Comments

Grant Ronald just published an Oracle white paper titled “Oracle Forms and SOA: The Whys and Hows for your business”. It describes the (business) benefits of an Service Oriented Architecture targeted at current or past Oracle Forms customers.

I feel this paper certainly fills a gap. There’s a whole lot of information about SOA and its benefits. This paper addresses the fundamental difference between typical Forms applications (data centric) and SOA applications (process centric).

The paper includes three customer cases which demonstrate that it is possible to move from a traditional Forms/data centric system to a SOA architecture. Eurotransplant happens to be one of these three customers. To a lot of typical Oracle Forms customers a typical SOA paper might feel like a bridge too far and something too radically different to what they are accustomed to. Hopefully this paper will demonstrate that it is possible (and beneficial) for traditional Oracle Forms customers to embrace the SOA paradigm.

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