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 group for Ruby developers in the Fort Collins area. IRC channel: #focoruby on freenode.

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 …

The Software Quality Association of Denver (SQuAD), founded in September of 1997, supports Quality Assurance Professionals in the Mile High City. SQuAD meetings and events promote local interaction for members in Colorado. Members mutually support each other and supplement the exchange of information for: Quality Assurance Quality Control (including software testing) Total Quality Management Continuous Process Improvement SQuAD is a not-for-profit organization. Membership is free and includes me …

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 …

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:  …

We meet once a month (or maybe more) in Fort Collins.  We'll talk about whatever Agile or Lean topics the group wants to. Bring your questions!

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 …

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.

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

Calling all Mobile and Automation QA, Software Quality Engineers and Testers! We're focusing on the innovations around the Mobile and Automation Quality Engineering industry with a concentration on: 1. Approaches and Innovations with Mobile QE 2. Collaborative discussions around transitioning from traditional manual and/or web testing to Automation and Mobile 3. Automation and Performance Tools (open and proprietary) and 4. objective overviews on their use Cutting Edge Technology in the field of …

The aim of the AgileDenver Agile Coaching SIG is to provide a specialized community within Agile Denver that focuses on Agile Coaching. Those who play an Agile Coaching role, whether formally or informally, as well as those who are aspiring Agile Coaches, are encouraged to attend. The group emphasizes an "individuals and interactions" approach to sharing knowledge, experience, and networking opportunities. Examples of topics at gatherings might be: Agile Coaching skills, typical coaching hurdles …