DemoCamp Toronto 18 Wrap-up

Posted July 16th, 2008 by Chris Gurney

(Photo courtesy of Thomas Purves. More photos of the event, here.)

DemoCamp was a blast!

First of all, a big thank you to the DemoCamp stewards for giving me the opportunity to present Requirements Center last night.

Despite demonstrating the product every week without giving it much thought, I was actually really nervous during the day of leading up to the event. Working within the five-minute time limit, while trying to make a sophisticated product make sense to a brand new audience, while knowing that my friends were out there–watching–all contributed to what kept my brain occupied over the past couple of days. Fortunately for everyone, I calmed down shortly after simply telling everybody my name, and things just naturally flowed from there. I even ended early!

My goals were to add a touch of humor, minimize the business babble, and keep it interesting for a technical audience. I hope I achieved these things. I was originally going to show how to go about adding things to the project, but after watching the first demo and gauging the resources I had, opted to just show and talk through the model. It seemed to work well.

After the show, it was great meeting some of the team behind the operation, as well as others in the community. All of whom were kind enough to share with me their insight on running BarCamp-style events, which I totally plan on socializing with the ProductCampToronto crew, soon.

Anyway, if you’re interested in seeing a full, live demo of the product, most weeks I co-host Blueprint’s free, weekly webinars, which you can sign up for here. You can also check out a series of videos in our Demo Center. For even more on Requirements Center, check out these gorgeous-looking pages.

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