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 1. Review the [Guidebook Tools Setup Guide](https://github.com/ServiceNowEvents/Guidebook-Tools-Setup-Guide).
 1. Use the guidebook.md file provided here as a template to create your own content.
-1. Update this file with your lab/workshop Abstract
+1. Update this file with your lab/workshop Abstract
+
+Optional: Check out `checklist.md` for a handy list of tasks outlining a general process you can use to help prepare your lab.

checklist.md

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+# Lab Checklist
+
+## Components 
+- [ ] Session Outline/Abstract
+	- [ ] Outline should be "Section + Goal"
+		- ex: "Section 1: Install all prerequisites"
+- [ ] Speaker Bio/Picture
+- [ ] Powerpoint
+- [ ] Lab Guide
+- [ ] ICE Package
+	- [ ] Cloud labs configuration
+- [ ] Have your lab validated and tested by multiple other people and record their names here.
+	- [ ] 1st Validation: 
+	- [ ] 2nd Validation: 
+	- [ ] 3rd Validation: 
+
+### Guidelines
+- Must fit within a 100-minute session
+	- 10 mins for Intro
+	- 10 mins for Q&A + wrap-up
+- If you can do your lab in 30 mins, triple it for audience time. 
+- If there’s something you want to include but don’t think the majority of attendees will be able to get to, make it a challenge lab. That way they have the material and can come back to it later on.
+- Many companies block short links so don’t rely on bitly or other short linking. You should be providing a list of necessary links along with the lab setup or post them to the community somewhere. A GitHub repository is a good example.
+
+### Steps to craft a Lab
+- [ ] Create rules for lab images & Capture images
+	- [ ] Standardize on:
+		- [ ] colors, borders, whether to use boxes or ovals, arrow color, arrow direction, image size
+- [ ] Review guidebook.md over on [Guidebook Template - Tips and Tricks](https://github.com/ServiceNowEvents/GuidebookTemplate)
+- [ ] First Draft of Lab Guidebook
+	- [ ] Validation 1: Have someone peer review
+- [ ] First Draft of PPT presentation
+- [ ] Second Draft of Lab Guidebook 
+- [ ] Check all your images again and make sure there are no gifs
+	- [ ]  Validation 2: Have someone peer review
+- [ ] Get ready to record 
+	- [ ] 80% Complete on guide book
+	- [ ] 100% Complete on PPT presentation
+	- [ ] Know what all the gotchas are
+	- [ ] Know what your sections are
+- [ ] Final Guidebook Draft 
+	- [ ] Validation 3: Have someone peer review
+- [ ] Final ICE Package 
+
+### Prep For Knowledge
+- [ ] Be clear on requirements for Gurus
+	- [ ] It's very possible that this will be the first time most of your gurus are actually seeing this technology and they are most likely not going to do a lot of pre-work beforehand outside of running the lab if you're lucky - so plan accordingly!
+- [ ] Communicate with Gurus (The guru "Go before you go" meeting covers a lot of this)
+	- [ ] Appoint head guru
+	- [ ] Tell them to go through the Lab
+		- [ ] Lab Validation 4
+	- [ ] Tell them expectations on how you'd like them to interact with people in the room
+		- [ ] How to act as humans in the room
+		- [ ] When and how they can interrupt you
+		- [ ] Take pictures of URLs on slides so they can share them with people who miss them
+	- [ ] Schedule a meeting prior to knowledge 
+	- [ ] Ask them to show up 15 minutes before the knowledge session
+	- [ ] Send as an Email
+
+### Guidebook Outline
+1. Setup (if applicable)
+	1. Github
+		1. Make sure they have Github account
+		2. Walk them through cloning repo, etc
+		3. Explain how the checkpoints will work
+	2. Github Companion (if working, if not you can just use the regular repo functions)
+		1. At end of each section in lab you can add - "Didn't make it? Go to studio and change to branch X"
+2. Goals
+3. (CONTENT GO HERE)
+4. Troubleshooting section
+5. THE END
+
+### Suggestions
+- Challenges at the end of each section
+	- A challenge is anything that is important that doesn't fit for time
+	- Don't necessarily need to include step-by-step instructions
+	- Make sure that anything you include as a challenge isn’t necessary to complete the next exercise.
+
+## Retrospective
+### What went well?
+- 
+### Room for improvement
+- 
+
+### Resources
+- [Tips and Tricks - ServiceNowEvents Github](https://github.com/ServiceNowEvents/Guidebook-Tools-Setup-Guide/wiki/Tips-and-Tricks)
+- [Guidebook Template - Tips and Tricks](https://github.com/ServiceNowEvents/GuidebookTemplate)
+-