In prepping for this presentation I put on my "simplification hat" and tried to think of the essence of some of the more popular Java technologies. I wanted to leave the talent managers with a simple visual picture in their minds, that represented the benefits of each technology. Then I followed each of those visuals up with a basic architecture diagram that explained how the technology fits into a typical application. I also gave them sample questions and answers for each technology, all focused on the high-level benefits of each technology (which problems the technology is meant to solve).
At the beginning I also went over some of the reasons I love being a consultant, and how to use those to attract talent. I basically walked through the bullet-points in this blog post.
The general feedback I got was that they were able to follow along and they found the information very helpful. I suspect though I may have lost a few of them near the end, when I got onto design patterns :)
Below are some of the more visual slides from my presentation. The full slide deck is available on Slideshare.
What do you think? Did I pick the right visuals? Could I have made it even simpler?
