Leading effective teams of super smart engineers is challenging, so let's get together and share notes. Whether you're a first-time manager of a software team or an experienced leader doesn't matter - we all can learn from each other. Topics for this meet-up should be whatever's on your daily work plate: recruiting talent, team building, communication, how to scale technical groups, growing leaders within the teams, tracking team efforts, etc.

This group is intended to meetup every month to discuss the topic of Resilience Engineering for the Web. Each month we will have a speaker to focus on a particular topic. Our goal is to provide a variety of topics including: Experiences & patterns shared by local companies who have found ways to make their systems more resilient. Talks focused on tools which facilitate resilient systems. This includes development, testing, deployment and management tools. Strategies for dealing with the human c …

Denver LAMP is interested in all topics related to web, mobile and tablet development. What is Denver LAMP about? We have hosted 20 meetup events since 2007, and have almost 450 members.  All of our group's meetup topics and event dates are voted on and decided by our members. For more information, please visit www.denverlamp.org. Is Denver LAMP still active? YES!  Although our last meeting was in 2010, we are currently planning our meetup schedule for the second half of 2012.  We are looking …

Lean Engagement emphasizes art, practice and systemization of agile software, lean start-up, 4 hour workweek, and getting things done (GTD) principles in bootstrapping and enterprise-funded start-ups. Practitioners of Lean Engagement learn through testible hypotheses, transactional engagement with beta testers and customers, multivariate data, and agile project management of software and business development. This Meetup group will comprise of hands-on workshops, lectures, community hack-a-thons …

The Gist Open source software is making a tremendous contribution to our advancement as a society. We believe that more people are willing to make a contribution to open source software. We are here to lower that barrier of entry and help you get started on your next open source contribution. If you aren't immediately sold on the idea, here are a few great reasons to get involved: It's good practice It's good for your resume It's good for your portfolio It's good for society as a whole See? Th …

This is a group for those interested in learning about and adopting DDD, and includes a number of experienced domain-driven design (DDD) practitioners. Our goal is to encourage building a DDD culture in the mile-high region, within its organizations and their teams, and helping you follow through with successful implementations. Our name says Denver, but we have members attending from along the front range, including Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs. Our group includes those who have practic …

Every software engineer needs to practice. Born from the attendees of Code Retreat Boulder 2011, we meet bimonthly to hone our skills working on interesting problems. The Code Retreat format was developed by Corey Haines and others. The essence of the format is that people pair-program on a problem for 45 minutes then throw away their code, take a short break, switch partners and repeat the process. Classically, these are full-day events including 6 programming sessions, a long lunch, and beer …

A day of practicing simple programming problems collaboratively using test driven development.

Come learn about new technology tools and paradigms around Quality Assurance. Meet other Quality Assurance professionals and learn how to make your software products as robust and solid as possible.

It's time to build some startups! This meetup is for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. Many of us developers / designers don't have the time to commit to being technical cofounders but would still like to be involved in startups. The idea of this meetup is to pool our time and skills together to build MVPs for startup ideas that interest us. We will be looking at proposals from entrepreneurs, putting together teams, and building MVPs. The application for entrepreneurs can be found here:  …

This is a group for anyone interested in in the Python computer language, from absolute beginners to experts. We're enthusiastic, polite and beginner-friendly. The group exists to share ideas and expertise, facilitate discussion and share the fun of Python in southern Colorado. We generally have a project night on the second Tuesday of the month and presentations on the fourth Tueday.