We had out November Bartlesville .NET User Group Meeting on 11/14/2008. It was an amazing meeting! We had 55 people in attendance. There were 48 developers and 7 recruiters. This was an amazing turnout. I was actually a bit nervous going into the meeting as only 25 people had RSVP'd. However, I knew with the reminders and the marketing I put out the weeks before the meeting that we would have a great turnout. And we did!! It was an amazing presentation by Raymond Lewallen on Behavior Driven Development. Raymond does a great job in presenting Behavior Driven Development and I have had a lot of feedback telling me that everyone loved Raymond's presentation. I really appreciated Raymond taking his day off and driving from Oklahoma City to Bartlesville, roughly a 2.5 - 3 hour drive one way. My desire to have Raymond was two-fold. I had the pleasure of seeing Raymond present at School of Dev in May in Tulsa. I knew at that point that I needed to get Raymond to Bartlesville for the user group. Why?
1) I needed others to hear the benefits of BDD from someone besides myself.
2) I wanted the Supervisors in our group to hear about BDD from someone besides myself.
The presentation worked. I have had some great discussions with my supervisor about BDD and may even be able to pilot BDD in the near future on a project. Hopefully this is a sign of change as one of the biggest problems I see in our group is the inefficiencies of rework. Thanks Raymond! If you guys get a chance check out Raymond's blog and see if you can get him to present at your group. You won't be sorry!