Currently, the NEW Agile Users Group meets bi-monthly. Each meeting features a brief presentation or interactive discussion as well as networking opportunities. The NEW Agile Users Group engages with both new and seasoned Agile practitioners – within IT and outside of IT. The group seeks to educate via a tutorial and networking focus where members and other attendees discover, share, and develop tools and techniques for becoming great Agile leaders in their organizations.

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 …

An independent gathering of pragmatic practitioners to discuss all things agile. The goal of the group is to pose and discuss questions in order to promote continuous learning from experience.

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.

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 …

Cars.com would personally like to connect you with other technologists in Chicago. As a fellow IT expert, we know you're always looking at innovation and new ways to increase your skills. The Cars.com Speaker Series is aimed at bringing the tech community together to network and learn new informatin from high profiled industry leaders. This month, we will have marty Abott speaking on agile and innovation in the workplace. Marty is an inventor, entrepreneur, technologist and business lead …

We'll be exploring Ruby web application development, mostly through the Ruby on Rails framework, but we'll cover other topics like setting up your system for Rails dev, testing and behavior driven development, JavaScript programming (backbone.js, node.js, etc), amongst other code related things. We don't require that you know Ruby to join, but it's going to be a technical group, so it's probably only a good fit for actual or aspiring web application developers. That being said, if you want to c …

Balanced Team is a group of people who are interested in furthering processes and methodologies to create great things. We include product managers, developers and designers who see multi-disciplinary collaboration around customer value as a source for innovation. Please join our Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/balancedteam

Software development professionals in downtown Chicago 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.  Once in a while, we'll branch out into OpenSource technologies.   Note to recruiters and job seekers: there is a Job Board forum in the Discussions tab of this website.

… After each presentation, a moderated discussion explores new ways of viewing and addressing the member's business challenges from Customer Development and Lean Startup perspectives.Please join Startup Collaboratory as we help each other learn to become more successful!

… 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 agile  development to decrease time to market and leverage continuous deployment to learn as fast as possible. Our mission attracts the brightest entrepreneurs in …

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.

This group gets together once a month and plays music at a local rehersal studio. Bring yourself and your axe/sticks/tamborene. We will have giant post its available for some open space style collaboration.

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

I decided to start this group because I'd like to meet with other people using Clojure. The purpose of the group is to share and learn about Clojure through presentations, group projects, and so on. Anyone interested in learning more about Clojure is welcome!

Startup Bootcamp is a Chicago-based community dedicated to facilitating the initial phases associated with technology-related startups. In particular, it is a community of startups that can support each other throughout the so-called "Valley of Death" period. Startup Bootcamp is entirely free, barring the cost of any meeting facilities or other logistical costs (which are split up amongst the attendees). The goal of the community is to provide each other with support in order to facilitate th …