We're about lean organizations in general, and about applying lean thinking to software companies in specific. Lean Software Development can be used to improve the effectiveness of teams that may already be using agile software methods. This meetup is about exploring the philosophy of systems thinking and theory of constraints as it applies to software development.

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.

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.

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

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 …

We are going to be creating the kind of events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all languages and walks of life as possible speakers in panels and even debates between different languages, IDE's, marketing strategies and more.   This is going to be THE group to join for information on application development, software engineering, OO, cloud, mobile, enterprise, business intelligence, HTML5, Hadoop, Python, Eclipse, JavaScript, JAVA, Machine Learning, HBASE, Mapre …

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 SF Bay Area User Group (SF-AUG) serves the San Francisco Bay Area with the following objectives: * Share and learn Atlassian product knowledge, best practices, and case studies with fellow current and prospective users. * Address the needs of both Atlassian product system administrators as well as novice and experienced product users. * Network and socialize with fellow Atlassian product users. * Meet 4 times a year on Wednesday or Thursday evenings in locations throughout San Francisco, th …

The purpose of this group is to bring together working technology professionals (mentors) with local college students (apprentices) in the Bay Area to work on summer projects. We will kick things off with mixers for potential mentors/apprentices in the late spring. There will be separate regional mixers and ongoing BayTAP activities for San Francisco, the East Bay, and the South Bay. Teams of 2 or more apprentices working with 1 or more mentors will work in two week sprints over the summer. We w …

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 …

Our purpose is to help beginning Android developers learn how to program on the Android mobile platform and publish a simple application on the Android market.

… We started StartUp Product Talks to facilitate conversations about the many common challenges faced by people who identify as professional product managers, AND those who are responsible for managing products from inception through launch and even sunsetting, AND people with the title and/or in the department of Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager, Product Management, Agile Product Manager, Agile Product Owner.... AND people who develop products, are responsible for products, design produ …

The Pivotal Tracker User Groups are a forum for product managers, project managers, entrepreneurs, 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 acceptance, and …

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 …

… *You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. *You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc. *You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It’s the principles and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are those that embed the knowledge and encourage the principles (e.g. Resharper.) Join us and make this a powerful communit …