Agilists have been making the drive up to San Francisco for the BayAPLN er BayALN meet up for years, now it's time for Silicon Valley area to have local access to stimulating Agile discussions and visiting agile gurus. We have big companies like Netflix, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Ebay and Yahoo that have their own agile implementations as well as many Lean and agile startups and smaller companies that can both benefit and contribute. Join us for online discussion Linkedin group at Silicon Valley Agile …

SF Peninsula SD meetup, monthly networking and talks on JVM-based Languages and Agile or Test-Driven Development 

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 …

Join us for the Founders Space Roundtables, where founders gather to share knowledge and work together to solve problems. Roundtables are geared to founders and C-level executives of growth-oriented companies for exploring critical issues and business opportunities with peers and subject matter experts. Each Roundtable tackles a specific subject, such as negotiating a term sheet, creating a marketing plan, filing patents, raising venture capital, etc. The session begins with industry experts, wh …

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 local current or aspiring engineering leaders who are interested in Engineering Leadership as a strategic competency. Discuss engineering leadership and its aspects: team-building, direction-setting, career planning, project experiences, education, certification, recruiting, organization structure, inter-departmental relations, etc.

We like scaling big systems, do you? ArchCamp is a meetup for engineers, by engineers. The goal is to talk about building systems (often at high scale) without having to listen to any sales pitches.   Event format: 20 min - mingle & discussion about the last event 40 min - lightning talks 5 minutes. (laptop setup is on your time, not ours) 60 min - open discussion about the topic du jour We have a meetup every 4 to 6 weeks   The cornerstone event for this meetup is the ArchCamp unconfer …

The PM PM SIG, an open forum community of practice, promotes excellence in project management and collaboration among Silicon Valley professionals. Our informal meetings facilitate the exchange of ideas, best practices, new methodologies, tools, resources and networking with local experts who deliver compelling, timely programs. We seek to grow future leaders and welcome all who are interested.

The Bay Area Limited WIP Society is intended to be the home of Kanban for the software development community. We welcome all those people doing Lean and Kanban, talking about Lean and Kanban, or wanting to find out about Lean and Kanban to join us. We meet regularly to share ideas, meet other Lean and Kanban enthusiasts, promote Lean and Kanban and harness innovation within the software industry. Get involved, have fun, become more efficient! To find out more visit the official limitedwipsociety …

As agile techniques have improved the process of creating and delivering software, the issues communication with Customer and Stakeholders have become more important. Older techniques such as system analysis and object-oriented analysis and design are coming together under the name of Domain Driven Design, after a book of that name by Eric Evans. This meet up is to explore this topic is some detail. Depending on who attends, we may find that we wish to study the book, have open discussions, and/ …