Other

• Visual Studio software factories to emerge from Microsoft deep freeze, Tim Anderson
• Implementations of Slideshow in C# and Clojure, Craig Andera
• Application Events: Modeling Selection vs De-Selection as Separate Events?, Derick Bailey
• Embedding a TFS Build label in all assemblies, Morten Lyhr
• Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks, Chris Missal

Mix

• Mix ‘10 Session - Building Windows Azure Applications is now online, jnak
• Now Available: Command-line Tool for PHP to Deploy Applications on Windows Azure, Windows Azure
• MIX10 – Day 2, Mike Taulty

Visual Studio 2010

• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2, Kirill Osenkov

Web

• Showing Progress Bar Using jQuery, Mohd Arshad
• Announcing the Border Radius Support plugin, Lazycoder
• Serializing models for RouteValueDictionary and later model binding, Matt
• The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript Released, Matthew Podwysocki
• RequireJS: Asynchronous JavaScript loading, Dion Almaer

Silverlight

• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Brad Abrams

Database

• SQL SERVER – Mirroring Configured Without Domain – The server network address TCP://SQLServerName:5023 can not be reached or does not exist, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Lecture at Catalyst Europe 2010, Alessandro Perilli
• Slides and links from Cloud Computing Congress session on Windows Azure Platform and Windows Azure guidance from the Patterns and Practices team, Eric Nelson
• ASP.NET MVC 2 and Windows Azure, Steven Smith
• @ Cloud Connect: Public, Private, or Hybrid: Where's the Value Today and Where's It Going?, Brenda Michelson
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/15/2010+, OakLeaf Systems
• Security In Cloud Computing Overview, Microsoft Downloads
• Azure – Practitioners Guides, Nick Malik
• ASP.NET Forms Authentication to Azure Table Storage, JD Meier
• Security risks of multi-tenancy, Phil Wainewright

Career

• The Simple Guide to Optimal Health & Fitness, Mark Sisson
• Challenge: Learn One New Thing Today, Buck Woody
• Ask FreelanceSwitch #7, Travis King
• 36 Best Business Books that Influenced Microsoft Leaders, JD
• Your Best Foot Forward: Writing An Effective Technical Cover Letter, Eric Anderson
• Inspiring Corporate Entrepreneurship to Fuel Innovation, Robert Brands with Jeff Zbar
• Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow, Mike Myatt
• The Art and Science of Innovation, Jeffrey Phillips

Business

• 30 Valuable Lessons Learned Using Social Media for Small Business, Darren Rowse
• How to Start a Business You Can Sell, Dane Carlson

Innovation

• When The Future is Open and Global…, Stefan Lindegaar
• 3 Horizons of Growth: How to Plan your Innovation Pipeline, Innovation in the News
• Part 3 of 3 - Building a Systemic Innovation Capability, Rowan Gibson

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – March 17, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 17, 2010, Cloud Feed
• The Morning Brew #562, Chris Alcock

Other

• Why, oh why do we have to upgrade out Solutions/Projects for VS2010? It’s the references… and Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office Released – Automate Office documents without Office, Greg Duncan
• Simple Branching and Merging with SVN, Steven Smith
• Video: Introduction to F#, MSR
• Claims-based Identity and Access Control Resources, Eric White
• The Next Tech Goldmine: Medical Records, Rich Whittle
• Workforce Analytics: Following the employees, Michael Specht
• Hanselminutes Podcast 205 - Open Data Protocol (OData) with Pablo Castro, Scott Hanselman

Mix

• Exciting product releases (and one disappointing thing) with Mix10, Jeff Putz
• Mix 10 Rollup Post, Scott Hanselman

From CodePlex Feed

• File Eraser
• Hulu Launcher
• Moq Examples
• patterns & practices - Windows Azure Guidance
• XBrowser - Headless Browser for .Net

Web

• Microsoft, Dion Almaer
• Internet Explorer Platform Preview, Microsoft Downloads
• Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating, Stephen Walther
• About the Platform Preview, IE Blog
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing deeper, Matthew Podwysocki

Silverlight

• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services and Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client, Brad Abrams

Database

• Using linked servers, OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY, Buck Woody
• New Master Data Services Content (What Else?!), Knight Reign
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DATABASE, Pinal Dave
• Want to know how SQL Server logging works?, Jonathan Kehayias

Security

• OWASP CodeCrawler – Static Code Review Tool, Darknet

Agile

• Parallel Pair Programming, Mark Needham

Cloud Computing

• Questetra Helps Managing Business Processes Via The Web, Supports Google Apps, Serkan Toto
• 100-day Cloud Watch on the Road: Cloud Connect in Santa Clara and @ Cloud Connect: Tuesday Morning 10 Minute Keynotes and @ Cloud Connect: The Surprising Economics of the Cloud, Brenda Michelson
• OData.org updated, gives clues about future SQL Azure enhancements, jamiet
• Getting Started with Windows Azure, JD Meier
• A Calculator for the Windows Azure platform AppFabric Billing Preview, .Net Services Team
• Big Data Is Less About Size, And More About Freedom, Bradford Cross
• Mix ‘10: Building and Deploying Windows Azure-Based Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, jnak
• PHP On Azure Links, Bruno Terkaly
• Tell Us What You Think - Respond to the Windows Azure 2010 Customer Satisfaction Survey Today!, Windows Azure
• Amazon S3 Versioning Is Now Ready, AWS Blog

Career

• How to Handle Non-Compete Clauses, Thursday Bram
• How to get unstuck in life, Penelope Trunk
• Wage Cost and Project Labor Cost, johanna
• Getting Results Knowledge Base, JD
• Project Manager’s vs. Developer’s View, Larry O’Brien
• Creating Your Vision, Steve Pavlina
• Great Product Manager Questions, Scott Sehlhorst
• Down Time, Andy Leonard

Business

• Now is Not Time to be Careless with Tax Compliance, Jeff Cornwall
• How to Make a Conference Pay Off, Meryl K Evans

Innovation

• Stefan Lindegaard announces new book on open innovation and Brilliant Thinkers Relish Ambiguity, Innovation in the News
• How to look for innovation inspiration outside of your industry, Innovation Weblog
• Open Innovation: Hype or Reality? and Creating a Networking Culture, Stefan Lindegaard
• The Need for Variety and the Innovation Quiver, Boris Pluskowski
• Part 2 of 3 - Building a Systemic Innovation Capability, Rowen Gibson
• A Simple Model for Innovation, Thomas Petersen

Other link blogs

• Dew Dump – March 16, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• New and Notable 408, Sam Gentile
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 16, 2010, Cloud Feed
• The Morning Brew #561, Chris Alcock

Other

• Fix to Disable Security on Responses, Nicholas Allen
• What to leave when you're leaving, Buck Woody
• Article: “Static methods are a code smell”, Ben Day
• Enterprise Application Development Books, Travis Illig
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Three, Eric Lippert
• Semantic Code: Migrating From A Chatty Interface To A Simple One With A Data Transfer Object, derick bailey
• Handling instruction operand overflow, Paul Mason
• OData Client Library for Windows Phone 7 Series CTP, Microsoft Downloads
• “The F# Survival Guide” – “… the first book you read in your F# journey…”, Greg Duncan
• Pluralcast # 11 : Parallel Programming in .NET 4, Davis Starr

Mix

• MIX 2010 Live coverage, Dennis van der Stelt
• Rewrite your resources with URL Rewriter 2.0 RTW (free), Walzenbach

Visual Studio 2010

• PS for your VS – PowerConsole a PowerShell console for VS 2010, Greg Duncan
• GBackupSolution - Visual Studio Extension VSX 2008/2010, Tiep Le
• WCF RIA Services Release Candidate for Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Downloads

Code to look at

• Sort collection class using LINQ for NUnit projects, Vasilel
• A Type Safe IDataReader Wrapper, Derick Bailey

From CodePlex Feed

• MediaCommMVC
• Sorting Algorithm Visualization
• Wizard Engine
• WS-Transfer based File Upload
• SQL Azure Ruby Connection

Data Access

• Poll on Entity Framework 4 – one year on, Eric Nelson

Web

• A deep dive and analysis of the JavaScript Module pattern, Dion Almaer
• A Dive Into the Google Wave Extensions Gallery, Will Kelly
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Wikipedia Lookup, Matthew Podwysocki
• REST: Resources, URI’s and Representations, Cory Isakson
• New Features Tighten Up ASP.NET MVC 2, Richard Hundhausen

Silverlight

• A guide to what has changed in the Silverlight 4 RC and Getting Started with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Development, Tim Heuer
• Silverlight 4 Tools, Microsoft Downloads

Database

• New T-SQL Functionality in SQL Server 2008, ejohnson2010
• Yes, you can benefit from both data and backup compression, Aaron Bertrand
• SQL SERVER – Quick Note of Database Mirroring, Pinal Dave

PowerShell

• SCCM PowerShell Module, Thomas

Security

• Backdoor.IRC.Zapchast - mIRC used as Zombie - Reversing Malicious Network-IRC Activity, evilcry

Agile

• The Book Shelf: Lean Software Development An Agile Toolkit, John V Petersen

Cloud Computing

• Open Text Windows Azure Data Sheet 2010, Microsoft Downloads
• Identity Developer Training Kit March 2010 update: WIF+Silverlight, WIF+WCF on Windows Azure, V Bertocci
• Windows Azure Guidance – a-Expense “before” on CodePlex, eugeniop

Career

• 7 Tips For Marketing Your Freelance Business Offline, Seth Simonds
• How to Be a Positive Person, in Under 300 Words, Leo Babauta
• What’s Not Working? Tips for Better Organization, Amber Singleton Riviere
• Know, Believe, and Do, JD
• How to know if you're a coding optimist or pessimist, Jeremy Miller

Business

• Why Face-to-Face Meetings Still Matter, Karen Leland
• 4 Traps That Destroy Entrepreneurs (Part 1), Mike Figliuolo

Innovation

• How to Measure Open Innovation Value – Part 1 and A Three-Step Approach on Open Innovation, Stefan Lindegaard
• Innovation - Art, Science or both?, Jeffrey Phillips
• Wharton Study: Securities Analysts Discourage Innovation, Erik Sherman
• Apple Innovation eBook - Innovation Strategy, Innovation Process, Innovation Model, Sanjay Dalal
• What's Stopping Innovation?, Innovation in the News
• Book Review - "Innovation to the Core", Branden Kelley
• Part 1 of 3 - Building a Systemic Innovation Capability, Blogging Innovation
• 8 Design Tips for Startups - Moving Beyond Aesthetics, Thomas Petersen

Community

• New SQL Server Group in Hartford, CT, Chris Bowen
• Upcoming AWS Events - Spring 2010, AWS Blog
• Attend free workshop on 3/16: Architecture Analysis Patterns, Jeffrey Palermo

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – March 15, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 15, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Everyman on Goals and the Personal Brand, Not How Many but Who, Algae Farming, Dave Burke
• The Morning Brew #560, Chris Alcock

Tonight I threw together a vsi to add WorkerRole and WebRole class templates for C# and VB.  These are classes that are handy to have when you are moving a web project or dll to a cloud service.

Just download the vsi: CloudServiceItems.vsi, then install it.  The items are not signed so you will get a warning message.  Feel free to just extract the vsi (its just a zip file renamed) and check out the contents if you want, but there isn’t much there to look at.

When you double click the vsi, Visual Studio will launch the installer and you’ll get the following dialog:

Then you’ll get a warning message about it not being signed:

Click Yes and then click Finish and the templates will be installed.

Next time you go to the Add New Item dialog in VS (VB or CS) you’ll have the WebRole and WorkerRole templates listed in the My Template area (like shown below).

I found this link today: http://barcamp.org/dicampboston1 for the Design + Innovation Camp in town this Thursday.  If you’re interested, you better sign up soon – there is only room for 60.

I’m planning on being there, sounds like the sort of event I’ve been looking for lately.

Other

• Parallel Debugging on MSDN Magazine and VS2010 IDE Colors Extension and Map/Reduce visual explanation, Salvador Gascon
• I’m writing a MVVM book – What would you like to see in it?, Brian Lagunas
• What is map/reduce for, anyway?, Ayende Rahien
• Get Safe File Name, merill
• Visual Studio Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer), Microsoft Downloads
• Joel Spolsky Retires From Blogging in 3 Days, Andy Leonard

Mix

• MIX10 – Design Fundamentals for Developers and MIX10 – Design Fundamentals for Developers – Part 2, Ryan Rinaldi

From CodePlex Feed

• Facebook Azure Toolkit
• ZipStorer - A Pure C# Class to Store Files in Zip: ZipStorer 2.35

Web

• node.js: First thoughts, Mark Needham

Silverlight

• Hamilton and I MEFFing it up on Silverlight TV, Glenn Block

Database

• SQL SERVER – MAXDOP Settings to Limit Query to Run on Specific CPU, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Cloud Computing and Security Conference: SecureCloud 2010, Cloud Security
• Every cloud computer has a silver lining, KiteTail

Career

• MCM Day 0: No More Cramming, Brent Ozar
• Writing Things Down Frees You Up and The Good Life and Information Overload is Not the Problem – It’s Filter Failure and Be Effective, then Efficient, JD
• How to find the most fulfilling careers, Penelope Trunk

Blogging

• Navigating the Middle of Your Post – Without Getting Lost, Darren Rowse

Innovation

• Nine Tips for Open Innovation, Stefan Lindegaard
• Adopt, Adapt, Improve and Innovate, Paul Sloane
• The Innovation Paradox, Mitch Ditkoff
• Are You Prepared to Lose Control of the Idea?, Glen Stansberry

Other link blogs

• New and Notable 407, Sam Gentile
• Dew Drop – March 14, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 14, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Links of the week #111, David Vidmar
• Links (3/14/2010), Steve Pietrek
• Weekly Link Post 136, Rhonda Tipton
• The Morning Brew #559, Chris Alcock

Other

• Parallel Computing Platform Developer Lab, Daniel Moth
• Just because it’s virtual doesn’t mean it isn’t real… Using Visual Studio Lab Management to help virtualize your ALM, Greg Duncan
• Making WPF Binding Errors Exceptions, Jason Bock
• What do you think of the EntLib 5.0 configuration tool?, Tom Hollander
• I'm back, Zsozso
• Map / Reduce – A visual explanation, Ayende Rahien

Code to look at

• ParallelWork: Feature rich multithreaded fluent task execution library for WPF, Omar Al Zabir

Web

• Single Page Interface Pattern and Advanced jQuery techniques, Salvador Gascon
• MvcFutures, Tony Rasa
• Asp.Net MVC 2 Areas, Chris Brandsma

Database

• Database Design - Surrogate keys: Part 1 of many (Rules for Surrogate Keys, E. F. Codd and C J Date research and problems they solve), Tony Rogerson
• SQL Server : login vs account, Salvador Gascon
• Today’s letter is M. M is for Modeling… “The Busy Developer's Guide to SQL Server Modeling”, Greg Duncan
• SQLAuthority News – Interesting Whitepaper – We Loaded 1TB in 30 Minutes with SSIS, and So Can You, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure Deployment Stuck in Initializing, Busy, Stopping, Salvador Gascon
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/12/2010+, OakLeaf Systems
• ALTER’ing SQL Azure for MIX, Jeff Currier

Career

• Wonder Around to Build Your Curiosity, JD
• Why some smart people don’t take action?, Rajesh Setty

Innovation

• Chance to win a $3,690 Front End of Innovation Ticket, Blogging Innovation

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – March 13, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 13, 2010, Cloud Feed

Other

• SharpSvn: A Primer, merill
• You can’t learn the basics from the pros, Ayende Rahien
• Martin Fowler on the ethics of software development – QCon report, Tim Anderson
• Quirks in .NET – Part 3 Marshalling Numbers, thycotic
• SQL Style Extensions for C#, Leon Bambrick
• My Experience with a Virtual Assistant using TimeSvr, Joe Webb
• Getting an Assembly From the GAC, Jim Holmes
• Positioning the Parallel Stacks window, The Moth

Visual Studio 2010

• Visual Studio Addin failed to load, Patrick Smacchia

Data Access

• Installing all the bits to demo Entity Framework 4 on the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate and Recent resources on Entity Framework 4 and Hex Dump using LINQ (in 7 Lines of Code), Eric Nelson
• Joins in LINQ to SQL, Raj Kaimal
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation to create OData feeds, Stephen Forte

Web

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released!, Phil Haack
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – From Blocking to Async, Matthew Podwysocki
• Binding a select in a client template, Bertrand Le Roy
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released, Scott Hanselman
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released for Visual Studio 2008, Nicholas Allen
• Site Activity Feed Now in the Sueetie Syndication Lineup, Dave Burke

Silverlight

• Silverlight 4: Implicit Themes and a Sneak Peek, Brian Lagunas

Database

• Who’s Your Target Audience?, Brent Ozar

Security

• MSDN Webcast: Security Talk - Protecting Your Data from the Application to the Database, MSDN
• Win32.Parite.B Unpacking and Anatomy Reversing and Network Analysis, evilcry

Architecture

• Clarifying the Ambiguous Term Solution Architecture, Sondre Bjellas

Cloud Computing

• 15 Azure-Related Sessions Scheduled for TechEd 2010, OakLeaf Systems
• IBM Will Announce Its Public Cloud Initiative on Tuesday, Erik Scherman
• Cloud computing enables and forces us to do proper engineering, Pawel Pabich
• Should You Do Business in the Cloud?, Entrepreneur.com
• Are you in Chicago? DPM and I will be April 8-9 with Iron Mountain, Jason Buffington
• Understanding the AppFabric – Implementing the Publish & Listen, Bruno Terkaly

Career

• Thinking the Unthinkable, Holly Green
• How to Provide Constructive Criticism, Stephen Marsh
• Telecommuting Means Billions in Savings, Thursday Bram

Business

• Tips On Streamlining Accounts Payable, Christine Lagorio

Innovation

• An Innovation Manifesto, Tim Kastelle
• 10 Good Reads on Innovation #13, Stefan Lindegaard
• What's Stopping Innovation?, Scott Anthony
• Innovation a Top 3 Priority - What about Metrics?, Yann Cramer

Community

• Register for Cloud Computing Bootcamp: Free Technical Training on Developing for Windows Azure, MSDN
• Half Day Agile Seminar in Sydney, Australia, Stephen Forte
• Top Innovation Conferences of 2010, Blogging Innovation

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #558, Chris Alcock
• Dew Drop – March 12, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 12, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Everyman on What Clients Want, Foursquare Analytics, a Smarter Landing Page, Dave Burke

Other

• No silver domain modeling bullets, bogardj
• Survey: How do you manage the source code for your personal projects?, Linchi Shea
• How to merge your referenced assemblies into the output assembly for improved usability, Daniel Cazzulino
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Two, Eric Lippert
• TFS2008: Get the current TFS Data Warehouse update interval, Ben Day
• Introducing the Visual Studio Extension of the week and Visual Studio Color Theme Editor – Extension #01, Sara Ford
• How can I get objects and property values from expression trees?, Alexandra Rusina

Code to look at

• How to read the Google calendar in C#, Pubudu Kasakara
• Building Better Buttons in Expression Blend, Alan Beasley

From CodePlex Feed

• ASP.NET Wiki Control
• MvcPager
• Pex Custom Arithmetic Solver

Data Access

• Telerik Releases a new Visual Entity Designer, Stephen Forte
• If timestamp is deprecated, why do none of the current db tools support rowversion? and Two Introductory VS2010 Entity Framework Videos on Pluralsight on Demand, Julie Lerman

Web

• ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM, Microsoft Downloads
• YQL Geo library – all your geo needs in pure JavaScript, Chris Heilmann
• Perseids, John Hughes, And G.I. Joe Are Trending Topics On Wikipedia, Erick Schonfield
• WebForms vs MVC (again), karl
• ASP.NET MVC Migration Tool, Nicholas Allen
• Sueetie Aggregate Blog Post List Now Supports RSS, Dave Burke
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released, Scott Guthrie

Silverlight

• WCF Ria Services For Real, Jesse Liberty

Database

• Dear ISV: You’re Keeping Me Awake Nights with Your VARCHAR() Dates, Merrill Aldrich
• Tuning SQL Server Transactions – and Meetings, Brent Ozar
• The Root of all Evil, Gail
• ORMs – A Developer’s Dream, A DBA’s Nightmare?, Mike Ormond
• System Variables, Stored Procedures or Functions for Meta Data, Buck Woody
• The Busy Developer's Guide to SQL Server Modeling, Shawn Wildermuth
• SQL SERVER – Checklist for Analyzing Slow-Running Queries, Pinal Dave

Agile

• User Story Role in TFS, Chad

Cloud Computing

• Good Book: Development with the Force.com Platform, David Chappell
• Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director for the European Environment Agency, Windows Azure
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/11/2010+ and 15 Azure-Related Sessions Scheduled for TechEd 2010, OakLeaf Systems
• Register for Cloud Computing Bootcamp: Free Technical Training on Developing for Windows Azure, MSDN
• Cloud computing enables and forces us to do proper engineering, Pawel Pabich
• Azure Guidance – Scenario – Part II, eugeniop

Career

• Use Storytelling Techniques in Personal Branding: Narrative, Georgina Laidlaw
• Live video chat: How to find the hidden job market, Penelope Trunk
• The Power of Your Little Black Book, Amber Singleton Riviere
• Use 3 Stories to Drive Your Week, JD
• Take A Lesson In Entrepreneurship, Angela Shupe
• Roundup: Social Media Monitoring Tools, Doriano Carta
• Positive Steps for Managing Conflict, Entrepreneur.com

Business

• Meet Carol Roth: The Best Business Advice You Never Asked For, Barry Moltz
• How to Set Up Accounts Payable, Christine Lagorio
• Business Goals and Requirements, Scott Sehlhorst
• How Much Money Should You Raise?, Nitasha Tiku

Innovation

• NO CHARGE: Open Innovation Session for Company, Consulting Firm and Event Organizer, Stefan Lindegaard

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – March 11, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 11, 2010, Cloud Feed

Found this list this morning in Jeffrey Phillips’s post: The Importance of Innovation Skills and Best Practices

1. Set the ground rules. There are a consistent set of rules for brainstorming, including "encourage wild ideas", "Go for quantity not quality", "Don't judge while ideating", etc.
2. Clearly define the opportunity or challenge. Make the issue smaller or simpler if necessary.
3. Define the scope - what should be considered and what should be ignored. We should have placed "all health care systems in the world" out of bounds from the start.
4. Allow people to ask clarifying questions before we start brainstorming. Once we start generating ideas, limit the questions, which often change scope.
5. Pick a scribe to capture ideas so the facilitator doesn't have to write down ideas and manage the group
6. Encourage the reticent and moderate the talkers. Any group, and ours was no exception, has people who are happy to toss ideas out all day long, and those who won't speak at all. We need to hear from everyone, and perhaps a bit less from some people (me included).
7. Keep the team on task and on target. When the "evaluate all health care systems in the world" statement was made, we should have been reminded that that was out of bounds, and we needed to refocus on what we could solve.
8. Stretch the group when necessary. The facilitator can/should occasionally ask questions that shift the group's thinking or introduces a new perspective.