Are you a ScrumMaster or Agile Ninja, or interested in honing skills to become one? Are you a professional in software, web, or mobile development, or in an industry that would benefit from Agile philosophies and Scrum methodologies? Would you like to share and discuss best practices with others? Are you interested in meeting up with others with similar interests? If you answered yes to any of these questions then join our group! We hold monthly networking meetings in downtown Chicago to discuss …

We wish to setup a local community to meet with local Professionals utlizing Agile Scrum methodologies for software development

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 …

The Chicago Agile Methodology Meetup Group is an informal professional group focused on developing relationships, exchanging ideas, and fostering agile project innovation. We provide an open, comfortable environment for fellow Scrum Masters, Agile Gurus, and newcomers alike to meet and discuss related news, best practices, tips and anything else that might arise in this exciting and rapidly evolving project management niche. We welcome people from all backgrounds, not just IT, to come learn an …

The South Bend Software Craftsmanship group meets regularly to uphold and proliferate the values of the Software Craftsmanship Manifesto: Not only working software, but also well-crafted software Not only responding to change, but also steadily adding value Not only individuals and interactions, but also a community of professionals Not only customer collaboration, but also productive partnerships If you are interested in connecting with and learning from other like-minded software artisans in …

A monthly gathering dedicated to the exploration of software as a craft. We engage in hands-on practice and technical discussions facilitated by software luminaries -- all in the spirit of continuous learning. If you're interested in product craftsmanship, please check out Chicago Product Craftsmanship.

Accelerator Committed to Emerging Technologies in the Computer Simulations & Gaming Industries Located in Milwaukee, WI @TheWashHaus Also Known as the Blatz Brewery. We Build Ideas & Companies using the Lean Business Model Alongside Agile Software Development Methodologies.

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 - DevOps, Agile,Puppet/Chef, Cloud, Selenium, etc. - and will be complementary to them. But we'll talk about th …

Geekfest is a gathering of software development geeks every Tuesday at noon. It originally started at Obtiva back in 2007, and now it's at Groupon.

Find out what the Braintree crew is up to and where we'll be hanging out next. We like getting together with our users and anyone interested in payments, scaling, high availability, the video game Fez, and any other general geekery.

ChicagoRuby is a group of Ruby on Rails enthusiasts with events in downtown Chicago and in the suburbs. Monthly ChicagoRuby events are free, and the annual WindyCityRails conference attracts some of the brightest minds in software development. The ChicagoRuby Job Board matches team builders with talented developers. Check out the ChicagoRuby Videos. The ChicagoRuby motto: When smart people challenge each other to grow, great things happen!

The Chicago Lean Startup Circle is a group of smart and driven high-tech entrepreneurs that have learned how to discover customers and build products they want. Lean Startups (which can include for profit and not for profit organizations, new product/innovation organizations within larger companies and even government agencies) achieve success faster than most because they get out of the building to talk to customers, validate business model assumptions as quickly and cheaply as possible, use ag …

Startup Collaboratory is a group of Entrepreneurs, Business Professionals, and Business Owners who meet to...• Collaborate on starting and growing businesses• Share viewpoints and generate new ideas• Network for help overcoming business challengesAt Startup Collaboratory Meetups, selected members deliver short presentations describing their business, customers, and challenges. After each presentation, a moderated discussion explores new ways of viewing and addressing the member's business challe …

Software development professionals who made Microsoft .NET their tool of choice.  The core purpose of this group is to strengthen the Chicago .NET community through knowledge sharing and networking.  Meetup topics focus on the Microsoft stack, attempting to balance basic concepts with advanced concepts. Note to recruiters and job seekers: there is a Job Board forum in the Discussions tab of this website.

This meetup group has been deprecated. please join us at http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-APM/ (chicago agile project management)

We are a community of passionate experience designers interested in getting together to share stories, tools, project experiences and events! We explore human-computer interaction, agile design, user experience, frontend development, information architecture, interaction design, usability testing among other topics that help us deliver engaging customer experiences.

To bring together Chicago's top IT minds to network and socialize in a fun laid back environment where you can have drink with like-minded people to share thoughts, experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. This will also be an opportunity to take advantage of opportunities in career advancement and growth.

This group will be focused on discussing and learning about UX Strategies. This group is distinct in the sense that it will discuss bigger picture UX involvement as opposed to day to day UX activities that may be project related. Since UX is starting to take more influential roles and earlier in the development life cycle, I think it would be valuable to discuss different strategic outlooks and experiences.