Comment by jkaptur

PowerPoint actually fine

  - bad communication possible in any medium
  - pptx in NASA even today!
  - issue is managers/SMEs communication differences
    - issues with technical papers
      - long
      - boring
  - vs word, excel, pdf...

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Manager/SME Differences

  - context vs conclusion 
  - tell a compelling story
    - but give away the ending FIRST 
  - inherent personality differences
  - motivations/incentives/mindsets

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Learning from disasters

  - medium guides message and messenger
  - blame tool - binary choice?
  - presentation aide vs distributed technical artifact

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Questions?