Our mission is to continue to build on the efforts of the development community of New Haven -- and beyond! -- to make Connecticut the GREATEST place to be a software developer. To that end, we at Independent Software have developed the A100 Program. A100 is a software apprenticeship program that provides technical training to aspiring software developers to get them startup-ready, then matches them up with paid internships at local startups. We have lots of ways for you to benefit from and/or g …

Our group meets to present and share Agile best practices around project management, software development, and database development in a team environment. This includes topics like implementing Scrum, Agile database development and Application Life-Cycle Management.

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 …

A NYC Meetup where we discuss and explore principles, practices, and lessons learned at the intersection of Agile, Lean, and UX.

Nashua Scrum Club is a professional organization where people can learn and apply Agile project management and advanced technical practices while giving back to the community.

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The NYC Metro Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the NYC Metro Area and beyond. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related ar …

Quality Assurance is a group for those interested in Quality Assurance, Web and Software Test Automation, QA Based Development, Ruby, Python and more.

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The Greater Boston Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the Greater Boston area and beyond. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend throug …

NYC Lean/Kanban ... After Dark! meets fortnightly in a Lean Coffee format. to discuss Lean, Kanban, LSM, Agile and the various challenges we face as practitioners. The group is open to all and so is the agenda. About Kanban Kanban is more than just a tool in our bag of Agile software tricks.  It is an approach to change management and organizational culture.  We use Kanban for four main reasons. Evolutionary, incremental change with minimal resistance Achieve sustainable pace by balance through …

The Boston Lean IT / Limited WIP Society is a local forum for sharing ideas and experiences of applying the Kanban Method and Lean Thinking to IT processes, including (but not limited to) software development, maintenance, and support. Lean Thinking can help IT teams, large or small, become more effective and productive. The Kanban Method has its genesis in Toyota's manufacturing processes, and was pioneered by David J. Anderson as a flow-based system for software engineering projects & operatio …

This is a group for people in positions of responsibility in Software Quality Assurance to expand their knowledge and to network with peers on a wide variety of issues unique to managers such as: - Innovations in Software Testing - Best Practices in Software Quality Assurance - Pros and Cons of Testing Frameworks, Methodologies and Tools - Key Performance Indicators - Tactics to reduce testing cycle times and budgets. We will hold events monthly to discuss topics that related to QA leaders' dail …

Our monthly events are not your typical software engineering events and will cover a wide range of software programming related topics, techniques, frameworks, and technologies from local companies and educational institutions.  Events will either consist of speakers, panels, or training sessions.  The focus is placed on emerging technologies alongside current technologies and techniques. We will provide information on application development, software engineering, HTML5, Hadoop, Python, Eclipse …

A group devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the Boston Metro area.  Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data analytical solutions.

A group devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the NYC Metro area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data analytical solutions.

These are not your typical software engineering events. Our events cover topics related to software engineering along with business but aim to change the perspective of those who attend.  Our focus is on emerging technologies such as Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Semantic Web technologies, alongside more traditional topics like Ruby on Rails, HTML5, PHP, node.js, and Python. We reach out to the entire New York metropolitan …

Welcome to New York City Visual Studio User Group. Your ALM connection. Do you work on or manage a team of software professionals? Do you want to better understand other roles on the team? Are you trying to get past the marketing hype to hear real-life stories about agile practices like Scrum or Test Driven Development? These are all components of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), the art of coordinating business needs with all disciplines software development, including product managemen …

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

The Reverse Startup is an accelerated product launch camp, driven by the open source community, focused on rapid prototyping and rapid execution around a series of proof-of-concept exercises. Encompassing a wide range of topics, this group is ideal for developers, designers, technologists, marketing professionals and entrepreneurs. The Reverse Startup is a non-profit organization, dedicated to the community and helping people actualize their dreams and professional goals. We endeavor to come tog …

Lean, Agile, and Mean is a meetup for software developers who want to work on their starups using Lean and Agile methodologies. We will test drive all code and work in pairs. Everyone should be able to crate an MVP of their hypothesis within a couple of weeks.

This is a social and business group dedicated to TIBCO professionals whether employees, contractors or customers that use TIBCO Software.

This is a group for QA Professionals that work with agile development teams (or development teams that are striving to be agile). Let's discuss various testing methodologies and practices that are being used, along with obstacles that are routinely faced and how to overcome them.

Join us for a discussion series hosted by Kaplan Test Prep's Agile Center of Excellence focused on Agile/Lean methodologies.

We believe that to create better results in whatever we do…. We need to build better people. And to build better people, we need our business culture to support, encourage and reward the values and behaviors that lead to those results. We come together to learn about individual human dynamics and culture and their effects on building GREAT teams and organizations that, in turn, create GREAT results. Specifically, we address questions like: What are those values at the individual, team, and orga …

The process of building software and the way engineering teams are structured to deliver it are going through a process of transformative change. There is probably no clearer example of this than in the world of startup engineering. How else could Instagram have built & operated a system that ran on cross-platform devices and scaled to 30M users with only a small team of engineers? But how are are startup teams like Instragram organized? And what processes do they use to design, deliver and main …

NYC Tech Recruiters is creating a community of Tech Recruiters coming together to meet like-minded Recruiters and exchange ideas and best practices in the evolving Tech scene in NYC. Within this community we are promoting mentoring along with professional development within a general forum for Tech Recruiters to share their experiences. And we plan to have fun doing it. Software engineers are also welcomed to join this group to gain knowledge and give feedback on what they seek from a technical …

NYC Tech Engineers is creating a community of Tech Engineers coming together to meet like-minded Engineers and exchange ideas and best practices in the evolving Tech scene in NYC. Within this community we are promoting mentoring along with professional development within a general forum for Tech Engineers to share their experiences. And we plan to have fun doing it.   Software engineers are also welcomed to join this group to gain knowledge and give feedback on what they seek from a technical re …

Safety concerns for patients, satisfying investors and FDA compliance. Many companies struggle with meeting all these expectations; software-related product recalls and failed companies are the legacy of traditional, sequential methods. In this one-day course, we present the basics of software quality for FDA compliance, then show how lean/agile development, properly applied, provides a solution to both high quality and high productivity. http://agilefdacourse.eventbrite.com/#

Hi UXers! We've created this Meetup group to help get the word out about the UX Awards- www.UserExperienceAwards.com The UX Awards are the first Awards created to specifically celebrate and showcase examples of outstanding, game-changing UX. The annual UX Awards Event is also the biggest UX event of the season, and it's around the corner on Tuesday May 21, 2013 in NYC! Now in the third year, the User Experience Awards are the premiere Awards to showcase, celebrate, and raise understanding of exc …