Co-Presented Talk Adaptation

Problem/Feature Description

Two speakers are co-presenting a talk at a developer conference. Speaker A (the vault speaker) has an existing solo talk outline about "Testing in Production" that needs to be adapted for dual delivery. Speaker B is a reliability engineer who will bring SRE expertise. They need the outline restructured so both speakers have clear ownership of sections, smooth handoffs, and consistent branding.

Given the existing single-speaker outline below, adapt it for two co-presenters. Speaker A ("Morgan") owns the testing philosophy and cultural arguments. Speaker B ("Riley") owns the SRE tooling and incident response sections. They'll alternate sections with verbal handoffs.

The vault data for Speaker A is provided. Use it to maintain A's voice and style patterns while accommodating the co-presenter.

Output Specification

Produce the following files:

1. co-presented-outline.md — The adapted presentation outline with dual-speaker annotations
2. adaptation-checklist.md — A checklist of all the adaptations made for co-presentation

Input Files

The following files are provided as inputs. Extract them before beginning.

=============== FILE: inputs/original-outline.md ===============

Testing in Production: Why You're Already Doing It

Spec: Myth Buster | 45 min | SREcon | SRE practitioners Slide budget: 65 slides

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Opening Sequence [3 min, slides 1-5]

Slide 1: Title Slide

• Visual: "Testing in Production: Why You're Already Doing It"
• Footer: @morgandev | #SREcon | #testinprod | morgan.dev

Slide 2: Provocative Hook

• Visual: Meme — "You guys are testing in production?" shocked face
• Speaker: "Raise your hand if your company has a strict no-testing-in-production policy. Now keep your hand up if you've ever run a feature flag. Congratulations, you're testing in production."

Slide 3: Brief Bio

• Visual: Morgan Dev, Senior Engineer at TestCo

Slide 4: Shownotes

• Visual: morgan.dev/testinprod + QR code
• Speaker: "Slides, links, the whole thing — grab this URL now"

Slide 5: The Thesis

• Visual: "Production testing isn't reckless — pretending you don't do it is."
• Speaker: "And I'm going to prove it to you in the next 40 minutes."

Act 1: The Myth [15 min, slides 6-25]

Slide 6: The Sacred Rule

• Visual: "Never test in production" carved in stone tablet
• Speaker: "We've all heard this right? It's like the eleventh commandment of software engineering."

Slide 7-12: Evidence of Production Testing

• Visual: Feature flags, canary deploys, A/B tests, chaos engineering, dark launches, progressive rollouts
• Speaker: "Every single one of these is production testing. Full stop."

Slide 13-18: Meme Cascade — Denial

• Visual: 6 memes about organizations in denial about production testing

Slide 19-25: The Data

• Visual: Survey data and case studies
• Speaker: "91% of companies with advanced testing practices test in production regularly"

Act 2: The Reality [18 min, slides 26-50]

Slide 26-35: Tooling Deep Dive

• Visual: OpenTelemetry, feature flags, chaos tools
• Speaker: "Let me show you what good production testing actually looks like"

Slide 36-42: Incident Response Integration

• Visual: How production tests catch issues before users report them
• Speaker: "This is where it gets really interesting from an SRE perspective"

Slide 43-50: The Framework

• Visual: Morgan's testing maturity model
• Speaker: "Here's how to assess where your org is and where to go"

Closing Sequence [3 min, slides 51-55]

Slide 51: Summary

• Visual: "1. You're already testing in prod 2. Make it intentional 3. Build the safety nets"

Slide 52: CTA

• Visual: "Start with one canary deploy this sprint"

Slide 53: Thanks + Social

• Visual: @morgandev | morgan.dev/testinprod =============== END OF FILE ===============

=============== FILE: inputs/speaker-profile-excerpt.json =============== { "speaker": {"name": "Morgan Dev", "handle": "@morgandev", "website": "morgan.dev"}, "design_rules": { "footer": { "always_present": true, "pattern": "@morgandev | #{conference} | #{topic} | morgan.dev", "co_presented_extra": "co-presenter handle added after @morgandev, separated by ' & '" } }, "rhetoric_defaults": { "three_part_close": true, "on_slide_profanity": "never_default" }, "instrument_catalog": { "verbal_signatures": [ {"phrase": "right?", "usage": "confirmation tag", "frequency": "high"}, {"phrase": "full stop", "usage": "emphasis", "frequency": "medium"}, {"phrase": "raise your hand if", "usage": "audience polls", "frequency": "medium"} ] } } =============== END OF FILE ===============

=============== FILE: inputs/co-presenter-info.md =============== Co-presenter: Riley Ops Handle: @rileyops Role: SRE Lead at ReliabilityCo Expertise: Incident response, observability, chaos engineering Sections to own: Tooling deep dive (slides 26-35), Incident response (slides 36-42) Handoff style: Verbal cue + slide type change =============== END OF FILE ===============