Fail often learn quickly... Lean startup uses customer development to reduce waste, reduce time to market, increase contact with customers and avoid incorrect market assumptions. We're a group of tech entrepreneurs using the Build/Measure/Learn iteration loops in our startups. We're ready to talk implementation and share data from our experiments. Learn More about Lean Startups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Startup * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. * …

Cigital, a leading consulting firm specializing in software security, has created a forum for people to share their ideas on the importance of designing, building, and maintaining secure software. Cigital Atlanta is open to information security professionals, software developers, architects, code reviewers, test personnel, or anyone interested in software security awareness. To learn more about Cigital, please visit: http://www.cigital.com/about-us/ Who is Gary McGraw?  And why is he a Software …

The intention of this meetup is to provide a focal point for those interested in learning more about Kanban and related continuous and systemic improvements.  Possible meeting topics might include: Lean / Kanban book club Game night – using games to learn and understand kanban How lean, kanban and software craftsmanship relate to each other Open discussion sessions Kanban for operations teams, devops

A group of Atlanta-area sysadmins, developers, managers and other thought leaders who have recognized the relationship between development and operations is toxic and fundamentally broken. We'll be talking DevOps, Agile Infrascturcture, Agile Operations, or whatever you want to call it (Damon Edwards, from DTO Solutions, explains it best). Come hang out and talk with folks who deal with the same issues of Systems Administration, Development, Deployment, and Operations that you do. Talk withyour …

Meet local professionals interested in Agile/Scrum methods of software development.

The Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG) is organized by Java Developers for Java Developers in order to: Provide a forum for exchanging information and for brainstorming with other developers on how to successfully implement new Java solutions. Deliver monthly technical presentations on the latest Java/JVM technologies. Support the needs of both newbies and experts through related Study Groups targeted at Java Certification and Java-OO architectural issues. Promote the advantages of Java as a devel …

A gathering place and forum for discussion of all things related to Cloud Computing. Originally, the "AWSome Atlanta" group (with a focus on Amazon Web Services), this group has become the vendor-neutral (but vendor-friendly) braintrust of the Atlanta Cloud Computing community, rife with architects, developers, engineers, consultants, salesfolks and newbies alike! Come join us, and take part in the (r)evolution that is Cloud Computing!

Meet Atlantans interested to learn pragmatic ways for developing and delivering .NET based software. See http://ATLALT.NET/screwturn to learn more about this brand new group and our goals. Based on the ALT.NET approach, we are Passionate, Pragmatic, and Progressive. From http://altnetpedia.com : "We are a group of .NET developers who are passionate about improving the way we develop software. We recognize there is no single solution, but instead there are multitudes of alternatives that ca …