Set Goal for the Training Your and other stakeholders’ expectations should be clear from the start. Nobody should get disappointed because of a misunderstanding. Write a list of goals with detailed descriptions. Communicate the list before organizing the event. Get enough support to move forward.Do not skip this step. Any successful training event can still be considered a failure if the stakeholders had different expectations. Set Budget Depending on the event the budget can include hotel staying, professional instructors, or just a few hamburgers with pop. Get an estimate for the budget. Do not assume that if your event is...Read More

Know your audience Before we organize any hackathon, we have a thorough discussion with the client to learn about the audience. We ask lots of questions including: ExperienceBackground in the subjectCompany’s industrySome information about the projectNumber of people That is just the beginning. We ask questions so we can modify the hackathon and presentations. For example, we remove information for complete beginners if we know that the participants already have some background in the subject. If we did not do it then people would get bored and it would be very hard to get back their attention. We change examples...Read More