The Bay Area Agile Leadership Network (BayALN) was founded in 2006 to support a community of practice in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. We provide a forum for sharing practical experiences and advice. We also explore and develop Agile techniques, understanding and practices at the project, department, organization and enterprise levels.

Are you a marketer looking to apply the Agile principles & process your developers rave about? You've come to the right place. The Agile Marketing meetup will serve as a place to learn from and network with other pioneers in the Agile Marketing field.

SF Peninsula SD meetup, monthly networking and talks on JVM-based Languages and Agile or Test-Driven Development

Agile Coaching Circles are intended provide support for working ScrumMasters, agile coaches and project managers who are ready to polish their coaching skills by participating in an extended community of active, practicing coaches. Let's get together to share our successes and challenges with each other in order to support newer coaches, enhance our coaching skills and deepen our craft.

Cool startup ideas are hard to find! But so are good technology partners. The right execution of cool startup ideas matters! Join the Startup Development meetup group and share your successes (and failures) on developing startup in-house, hiring onshore and offshore contractors, share tips and learn from others.

This is a group for anyone involved or interested in learning and discussing new frameworks to achieve greater ROI when adopting Software Reuse. Our group will share real enterprise experience; achievements as well as challenges when implementing reuse methodologies. We will also discuss new technology that is changing the way software is developed and allowing Software Reuse to be fully realized with greater ROI then previously possible.

You've heard of Angel Investors? Angle Coders is a meet up group for developers who want to angle invest their time and skills in start-ups both for profit and non-profit business and organizations. Whether you want to invest your time as an investment, or as a charity project is up to you. We'll have speakers come and discuss their business and or project, hear what they're going to offer you, and go from there. You'll also meet like minded coders, hackers, and developers in a fun social si …

These are not your typical software engineering events.  BASE is focused on emerging technologies and creating events around topics that have never been attempted.  Events may be around such topics as Big Data, Machine Learning, Robotics, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Synthetic Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer History, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality (AR), and using software to create art. BASE creates events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all walks …

Meet other local people interested in Agile methods of software development.

Meet other developers who enjoy the agility and quality in writing automated tests. Come and hear experts demonstrate new tools and techniques. Participate in discussions on how to solve particular challenges. We target developers and expect to span both introductory and advanced subjects, including: Experience exchange, Q&A Web UI testing using Selenium or WatiN Testing embedded software Test Driven Development Behaviour Driven Development When to use stubs and mocks Google Test (C++ testing f …

We're expanding the focus of our group. Our aim initially was to get our members up-to-speed with Android mobile development. Now we're expanding our focus to include other Google technologies and mobile technologies.

East Bay Agilistry & QA Meetup Group focuses on software development, Scrum, Extreme Programming, software QA & testing, Agile methods, and Agile software development. Due to the vast amount of software companies in the East Bay, our goal is to build a community for employees to network with, and also grow as software professionals. East Bay Agilistry & QA Meetup Group is located at 73 Ray Street in downtown Pleasanton, CA.

What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more, more quickly. Lean UX is about getting more done better for the same investment. Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing your design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing research, testing your hypotheses, and building better hypotheses quickly, based on more information, based on reality. Read 10 Principles for Lean UX on Luxr The intersection between Lean Thinking, Agile Development and UX is a …

What is Lean Coffee? Lean Coffee is a structured, agenda-less meeting.Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking.Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. Who should attend? Everyone! From beginners to seasoned Leanists. Why attend? You like good coffee don't you?! ;-) And there are always great topics brought to the table; everything from "lean startup in large organizations" to "collective quality ownership" and "cus …

Is managing projects your bread and butter? Using JIRA to do that? Well, then this meetup is for you. If you are a project manager and use JIRA day to day then this meetup is for you. Come along and share your tips and tricks for managing projects with JIRA and GreenHopper.

We are creators of products and our medium is software (and sometimes hardware). We are designers and developers, facilitators and managers, students and teachers. We know building a product is different than writing code or generating designs. Tinderbox is the intersection of product, design, and technology. Our goal is to create a place where folks who are interested in building things people use can discuss, share, meet, create, and exchange useful feedback. Carbon Five is the sponsor of Tind …

A community of aspiring and existing Product Managers. Want to be a Product Manager? This group is for people interested in entering or learning more about Product Management and for existing Product Managers who wish to be mentors and share their experiences. We will bring in product experts to share their knowledge, help build product skills, have networking opportunities and also work on projects together. These projects can be personal or volunteer challenges posed by non-profits with a goal …

Welcome to the meetup! We're just getting the ball rolling here. We have secured a location (http://www.connectionssf.com )  for our labs and meetups, Look here for an announcement about the first meetups in 2013, coming very soon! What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more faster Lean UX is about getting more done & better ROI for the same investment Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing resea …

Startup Product, a movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective. Startup Product welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence. Everyone is encouraged to contribute their point of view, w …

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The SF Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the Bay Area. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as …

I'm reviving this group to transfer over the members from the Alameda Public Library Android Classes (which is now called the Alameda - Google Developer Group). This is both to expand the geographical location we're going to have our meetings in and to keep a more Android-topic focused group (while the Alameda - GDG is currently expanding its topics to non-Android related topics as well).

Welcome To SF Growth Hackers! Growth Hacking: A data-driven approach to marketing, user acquisition and sales funnels. Learn how to leverage user analytics, split testing and modern marketing techniques to improve every step of a sales funnel. As a startup or even a fortune 500 company you can't make informed decision about your product without the right data backing you up. We will discuss how to capture your data, setup experiments and make confident decisions about your business. Come and j …

This Group will bring software people together to share ideas and experience in the domain of Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery addresses the entire software delivery pipeline - from CI to testing to deployment to release - and addresses technology, process and organization. Anything within that domain will be in scope for our Group. The Group shares concerns with other Groups in the Bay area - DevOps, Agile,Puppet/Chef, Cloud, Selenium, etc. - and will be complementary to them. But we'll …

To apply for a demo, please use the on-line form. This group aims to be the point of contact between User Experience Professionals (product managers, designers, researchers, front end developers, technical writers, customer support professionals) and the developer community in the Bay Area. The purpose of the group is to help the User Experience community talk to who needs us, help you network and find new gigs with some exciting startup that need some UX love and care. Although the main focus …

This is a group for anyone interested in applying lean startup thinking inside large organizations. We are entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and corporate innovators who want to test ideas for new products, services, and business models within established companies. Learn how to: - Apply lean startup thinking to the enterprise - Design experiments that align product, business and customer - Conduct internal customer development Whenever possible, we will present actual case studies from large comp …

We are starting a serious of meetups for various QA specialties. Our goal is to build a solid community of QA testers on the Silicon Valley, share our experiences and hacks. Our fierst session will be about Web Testing. Come share your web testing expierence, and learn from other industry leaders. This is a free event.

This is a group for anyone that uses, or is considering using Project Sprouts to improve their software development and deployment workflow. Our meetings will generally begin with a quick presentation of Sprouts or a particular aspect of Sprouts, followed by an informal question and answer period from the attendees. Feel free to join whether you're a die hard Flash/Flex/Rubyist or just trying to figure out what all this stuff is... Everyone is welcome!

The Pivotal Tracker User Groups are a forum for product managers, project managers, entrepreneurs, designers and developers to share techniques and discuss the real day-to-day issues surrounding software project management. We’ll talk about upcoming Tracker features and look at third-party integrations. We'll discuss story estimation techniques and talk about what makes a good story. We’ll share our experience with agile planning, discuss patterns and anti-patterns of story management and accept …