This group aims to provide a meeting place and regular events for anyone involved in testing products which are developed in an Agile environment. Come to meet fellow testers, share stories and experiences about tools and techniques which may, or may not, have solved testing problems on other Agile projects. This is also a place of learning, where live demonstrations of tools will be given for FREE - no more expensive training courses for simple (and free) open-source testing tools. The group …

For All Agile enthusiasts either with extensive experience or looking to gain an inside track into the newest techniques being used, or even wanting to know how to introduce formal Agile practises into your business. We'll have regular speakers along with a few social drinks afterward!

This group was created to provide a place to get together and talk about the Lean Startup methodology. Following the first Leancamp, which brought world-leading thinkers in related areas to London, we have expanded to explore connected disciplines which give us global competitive advantage in the UK. We look at how Lean Startup relates to some key UK and European strengths, such business model innovation, service design, design strategy, bootstrapping and visual thinking, among others. We are a …

Zappers is a peer sharing community designed for those who believe in learning from each other and sharing testing knowledge. Zappers are from all walks of life, some are professional software testers for large international corporations, whilst others are computer science students looking to see how their skills match up, anyone with an interest in software testing would be most welcome to join us. Zappers believe in raising the standard of software testing internationally so most Zappers come …

This is a community for those who care and are proud of what they do. For those developers, regardless how experienced they are, who want to improve and master their craft. This is a community for those who believe that being average is just not good enough. The Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software development by practicing it and helping others learn the craft. Through this work we have come to value: Not only wo …

Informal meetup to share knowledge and stories from our own experience, to provide peer support, and to discuss anything related to agile, design and UX. We are part of the agile ux retreat family. Developers, (UX) designers, scrum masters, agile coaches, product owners, project managers, ... all welcome.

Welcome to Agile Practitioners. This group is open to anyone who is interested in Agile, Lean etc. This is not a group for overly religious Agile evangelists. The goal is simply to hold regular meetings, with small numbers, so that we can learn from each other and improve. While we don’t plan to replace any of the existing Agile groups, we do intend to be intriguingly different. For those who missed it, here are the talks from our Agile 20x20 night.

A community of people who use tools to grow collaboration throughout their company and aspire to effective product & software development. The group members will share their experiences and help each other grow in their understanding of the possibilities.

This group aims to provide a meeting place and regular events for anyone involved in testing products which are developed in an Agile environment. Come to meet fellow testers, share your experiences about tools and techniques both manual and automated which may, or may not, have solved testing problems on your Agile project. This is also a place of learning, where live demonstrations of tools will be given allowing you to decided if its the right tool for you If you've read Agile Testing: A Prac …

The Meetup group for anyone interested in IT Kanban and lean agile information technology in London UK.

Balanced Team is a group of people interested in furthering processes and methodologies to create great things. We include product managers, developers and designers who see multi-disciplinary collaboration and iterative delivery focused on customer value as a source for innovation. Please join our Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/balancedteam

At 7digital we’ve always loved and appreciated the London Developer community. All members of our development team regularly attend events held by groups such as the London .Net User Group, London Software Craftsmanship Community, Agile Evangelists, Extreme Tuesday Club, the various “In The Brain” events at Skillsmatter and many others. We feel it is now our turn to give back to the community and as such we will be hosting free independent, semi-regular evening events at our office, called Devs …

This meetup is for software developers, recruiters and employers seeking work/workers in either web or desktop technologies from C#/VB to Node.js, from Scala to Ruby. There are hundreds of great jobs in London and hundreds of fantastic candidates. Currently the system of getting employers and candidates together is inefficient, labour intensive and time consuming. So lets have the recruiters, employers and candidates all meetup together in central London (working on the venue, any suggestions pl …

UNICOM Seminars has set up DevOps London Group so that people working and interacting between development and operational activities within an enterprise can meet, share ideas, discuss technical problems and make valuable business contacts.

Using Scrum (or another agile framework) but not sure if you're doing it well? Come and meet other agile users to discuss: the pros & cons of using Scrum, Kanban & other agile frameworks the dos & don'ts latest theories how to use story points / ideal days most effectively how to incorporate testing into your plans how to explain the benefits of agile to stakeholders whether agile can be applied to other areas other than development much, much more ... oh, and to have a drink and meet people. …

Jenkins Jenkins is a Continuous Integration tool developed by Kohsuke Kawaguchi who is currenly working with Cloudbees. Jenkins has boomimg in the market and most of the companies using Jenkins as CI server. Agile software development won't be complete without effective & visible CI and Jenkins fits perfectly into it. London JenkinsCI Users Group London JenkinsCI Users group is a group of IT professionals using Jenkins as a CI server, people want to use/learn Jenkins and people want to share thi …

A group for anyone interested in lean (startups, UX, etc) in Brighton & Sussex, whether you're an entrepreneur, wannabe-preneur (is that a thing?), designer, developer or just curious. Let's meet over a coffee beer to... Share knowledge Exchange ideas Share experiments & customer development hacks (good & bad) Discuss lean tools Make connections Follow @spookstudio or @welovelean for updates.

New technologies are constantly appearing and software development practices continue to adapt and evolve. Recently we have observed a new role emerging in the IT industry which has been labelled SDET or Software Developer in Test. This role has increasingly gained traction with the software industry and several employers have now started to recruit specifically for this role. The aim of the London SDET group is to bring together people who are interested in the SDET role to form a community whe …

This is a group for anyone interested in learning more about writing code using modern techniques by practising together in a friendly, cooperative atmosphere fuelled by the four main sources of nourishment for developers - curiosity, beer, pizza and caffeine. The group is language agnostic, although meetings are likely to focus on specific technologies. The group is centred on Guildford since it is fairly central to the area, and also has a number of high-tech startups nearby on the Surrey Rese …

Following the same principles as the London Tester Gathering this event will be held monthly with 1 or 2 presentations (though format may change). This is a group for Testers and run by Testers, a chance for people involved in or who are interested in testing to get together in an informal setting. We'll get together at a venue and a few people will talk or give a presentation. This is a group which organically grew out of interest from the Reading/Berkshire Testing community for a Tester Gath …

For all the girls and women working in the web/mobile/e-commerce as scrum-masters, Agile PM's, managers (product, account, business), developers/programmers (female only obviously), support, testing, analysis and devOps. This is a meetup to chillax and have a gossip and a giggle about the ins and outs, the ups and downs and the whys and wherefores of working (and being a woman) in the London IT community. You don't have to be certified in anything, you just need a place to be yourself with other …

We bring our members great talks from the best speakers in the UK and where possible from around the world. Predominately we look at the Microsoft development stack, but we do have platform neutral and methodology based talks too. We guarantee one meeting a month, normally on the 3rd Thursday of the month.  Everyone is welcome! Be you a student or grizzled professional, come along for a night of great content, people and pizza :) We offer your first 2 events for free, then after that we'd like y …

Connecting people so that they can collaborate and work together in the future. Providing a place for newer coaches to seek support Exchanging coaching skills and experiences Develop new concepts collaboratively that we can use when coaching Develop ideas that will support the discipline of coaching Having fun, sharing and collaboration The target audience is you, peers that you work with or have worked with, ScrumMasters, anybody with potential to be coaches, good ScrumMasters. Please feel fr …

Quarterly meet up for Heads of Test/ QA in London to network with like minded people.... Completely free! Each event will have 4 Key notes speakers discussing HOT topics including Testing in an Agile Environment/ The new role of a Developer in Test and a comparison of new Open Source tools. It will be held in the RBS Building- 280 Bishopgate- Capacity- 200 people. Free Wine/ Beer/ Soft drinks and nibbles. Time afterwards to network .....

We explore the use of agile by marketers here in the London area. The agile marketing community is currently an informal network of marketers, participants include; practicing agile marketers, marketers new to the concept—who are curious about using agile marketing, consultants to marketers, and members of the agile development community.

This is a group for anyone working or living in Berkshire area to come and discuss, share, learn, listen, explore about Scrum (or rather any agile practices). Come and explore the beautiful world of Agile! Everyone welcome from agile novice to agile extremist :)

Paddington Lean Coffee is in informal discussion group meeting in the Paddington area of London, UK. We share ideas and insights about Lean and Agile approaches to software development and delivery, using the Lean Coffee discussion format (see http://limitedwipsociety.ning.com/page/lean-coffee)

Here at 7digital we're getting all excited about DevOps. We like to think we've always had the open and collaborative culture that is intrinsic to the DevOps approach, and lately we've been spending quite a lot of time experimenting with various ways of working, team organisation, and technical tools. The DevOps community is a lively place, and we thought it'd be great to host a regular event where we could hear a short presentation and then have a good chat about whatever comes up over some dri …