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.

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.

Serving the corporate Agile community of Northern New Jersey.

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 …

What is ALT.NET? 1. You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. 2. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. 3. You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc. 4. You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It’s the principles and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are thos …

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 …

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 …

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

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.

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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

This is a meetup about making amazing tech and non-tech products. We will host guest speakers that are experts on different topics related to managing teams, communication, and understanding customer needs. Join if you want to meet like-minded product people and learn the latest ways of creating awesome products.

We, newhaven.rb, are a group of people living in and around New Haven, CT brought together by shared interest in the Ruby Programming Language. We come from all different professions and occupations to share our knowledge of Ruby and learn from one another. If you're interested in joining us to learn about Ruby or just hang out with fellow enthusiasts, follow us on Twitter @newhavenrb, join our discussion list, or find us on irc #newhavenrb to get in touch. Our normal schedule is to meet on the …

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers working for (or wanting to work for) digital/web/mobile companies in New York to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Management, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, networking opportunities, and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to companies big and small. We also welcome e …

We discuss new trends in the field and act of communication! Our focus is on discussing cutting edge and future digital engagements: their design, interactions, application, dev process, platform and the like.

This group is meant to bridge the disconnect between business people and technologists. Dealing with tech people is not an easy task, and this community is for business people to learn about the perspectives of what frustrates, drives, and satisfies tech minds. Business owners, project managers, managers, VPs, executives, are encouraged to join to exchange experiences, what works and what doesn't. Tech people are encouraged to join to speak up to business people in a non-threatening environment …

Meet other local people in NYC interested in Domain-Driven Design, learn more about it, exchange experiences, discuss current design problems, etc.

Interested in using your tech skills for good? We host meetups to cover the tech skills required to make a difference to the world. We'll be covering topics such as Product Development, Creating MVPs, Open-Source Dev and Web Development.