Hey, next week is the most active week of the month in terms of the user group community in Cincinnati. One of the purposes of this space is to highlight the generally high-quality of the content and information transfer at the different user groups in order to drive attendance. I would estimate 98% of the Cincinnati developer/BA/PM community does not take advantage of some of these excellent, reliable, and low/no cost resources.

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Happy Valentine’s Day! I ran into a lot of people at last night’s SPIN. The meeting was held at the PDR offices, and PDR’s QA Practice Director, Pat Freeman, presented on Software Quality Metrics for Decision Making that we’ll get into in a minute. Kishore distributed copies of Better Software magazine. You can apply for a free digital subscription. About 30 folks attended this meeting. Matt Cardarella, Katie Pattison, and Bridget Ganow (I’m sorry if I butchered your last names) of Speedway traveled from north Dayton to attend this meeting. As I said earlier, SPIN will change the way you work and increase the quality of your output, and seeing these folks make the trek down just reinforces SPIN’s value for me.

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I had lunch today with Joni Burton, who recently moved from CIBER to Trasys. Joni took the president role at Trasys and has the opportunity to guide and work with that organization unencumbered by delivery responsibility for organizations that had no reporting responsibility to her.

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Phewww, what a busy couple of days. A marathon MSDN event in Mason and the XP User Group at Children’s Hospital in Clifton on Tuesday made for an information packed day. Quite a bit to absorb. I’ll get to those in my next couple of posts.

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