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Pitching

An important part of advising is being able to convey your advice orally in a convincing way. This includes presentation skills such as clear articulation, using a logical story structure, connecting with your audience, and applying persuasion techniques. In the cloud engineering world, pitching is essential: you must be able to "sell" your architectural solution, migration strategy, or technical proposal briefly and powerfully to stakeholders, management, or clients.

The ability to convey technical ideas is essential to create support – after all, good cloud solutions have little effect if you can't convince stakeholders to invest in them. Strong presentation skills help you align teams on technical direction and get architectural decisions accepted.

Starting Points

Key Points

  • Pay attention to speaking pace, volume, and intonation to maintain attention.
  • Support your story with examples or analogies that convince the listener of the benefits of your cloud solution.
  • Pay attention to your body language and posture during presentation (eye contact, open posture, exuding confidence).
  • Gauge your audience's reaction and respond to it, adapting technical details to their level of understanding.