Due to many of our meeting venues this group is open to US Citizens only. Calling all Agilists in the Annapolis Junction area! We are meeting to discuss the latest use of Agile practices and techniques in our unique customer environment. We're focusing on the areas of software and systems engineering with a healthy dose of test engineering and project management thrown in. We will be sharing through a combination of social meetings, roundtables and workshop formats. Come on out and join us! Due …

Welcome to the Washington DC Software Craftsmanship User Group! This group is for software developers in the Washington DC area that care about the quality of their work and want to practice and improve their programming skills, share what they know and learn new things from others. This is a hands-on coding user group with no presentations. Each meeting will be a dojo where we will go through a challenging software craftsmanship exercise that focuses on clean code, test-driven development, des …

In each meeting we will discuss: common design patterns that can improve your application code; software development principles that underlie many design patterns; best practices in application design and development; frameworks that support best practices. Applying these patterns and practices in real-world applications can be a lot trickier than understanding them conceptually, so we will encourage you to bring in application design problems that you have been struggling with, or solutions t …

This group is for everyone in the DC-MD-VA area to get together, talk Agile, and learn from each other. Each session will start with a presentation on a topic of interest. After that we'll have a discussion period where participants can share challenges that they are facing and get feedback, ideas, and support from the group. The event is free. So come out, join the discussion, and get Agile.

We are a community of software industry professionals in the Washington DC area meeting regularly to discuss the business of software. This group is the place for software developers, vendors, entrepreneurs, investors, executives, directors, and engineers to learn and share the most recent business and technical innovations, trends, experiences, challenges, and opportunities in the software industry.

BTI360's Software Craftsmanship Series is an internal company event that focuses on taking your software engineering skills to the next level. This is done through discussing and diving deep into what constitutes clean code, what coding principles are often disregarded, and how to affect better coding practices on your team.

This is a platform for software testers in and around Delaware to meet and greet one another, and to beat difficulties in understanding a framework, tool, practice or to overcome mundane challenges. Besides being meaningful, it will be a hub of refreshing and energizing sessions. So folks linked with testing in and around Delaware, let us meet up...

Welcome Lean Kanban DC! Lean Kanban DC is associated with the Limited WIP Society, which is the home of the global community embracing Kanban for software development. "Limited WIP" refers to limiting the amount of work in progress -- a core practice in lean pull systems such as kanban. The goal of this group is to help grow and learn from each about Lean Kanban techniques to help us deliver products. This community is open to a wide array of topics including: Lean, Kanban, Agile, Lean Startup, …

Welcome to the Washington DC Scrum User Group! This group is for Washington DC area Agile evangelists, thought leaders and enthusiasts that are passionate about all things Agile and Scrum. Meetings are held monthly and are mainly discussions, workshops, or open space type sessions covering various topics about Agile and Scrum. Meetings will usually occur on the 3rd Monday or Tuesday night of the month and will be in a location that is metro accessible in the Washington DC/Arlington/Alexandria …

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 …

A group, lead by the team at IKANOW, devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the DC/Metro area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data solutions.

Welcome to the Washington DC Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment User Group. This meetup is dedicated to sharing tools and techniques for delivering software repeatably and reliably to production. If you are interested in learning about automating day to day tasks, writing build scripts, build tools, continuous integration servers, continuous deployment, DevOps, Puppet or Chef, test automation, deployment pipelines, database provisioning, and much much more, then this is the group fo …

The DC Selenium Meetup is a group for Selenium users of all skill levels to come together to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as Agile testing, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, building maintainable automated test scripts and much more.

Big Data ! Data Science ! Predictive Analytics ! Machine Learning ! ... these are all great buzzwords but to make a system actually work and that has an impact is a non-trivial task. To go from concept to system deployment many technical, project and program elements need to come together. The goal of this meet-up group is to provide a forum for systems architects/engineers, software architects, software engineers, analysts, informaticists, data scientists, program managers and end customers a f …

Have a web or mobile application you want to test? Have a prototype or mock-up you want to introduce to the light of day? Let's test with 1) real users 2) in real time 3) face to face and 4) FREE? Premise: People who want users for their applications/designs for testing, will test others applications/designs, in exchange. In addition, our group will have expert speakers on usability, UX and UI. You are welcome to attend to learn, network and help others test their software and designs, even if …

We're a group of Hadoop & Cloud Computing technologists / enthusiasts / curious people who discuss emerging technologies, Hadoop & related software development (HBase, Cassandra, Hive, PIG, etc). Come learn from each other, meet nice people, have some food/drink.

Meet, share ideas and learn about Lean Start-up efforts from local entrepreneurs. The initial meeting is intended to discuss the feasibility of a Tysons Corner Lean Start-up group, given that there is already an active group in Washington DC. Can another group exist without diluting the DC group? Lean Startup is a set of processes used by entrepreneurs to develop products and markets, combining Agile Software Development, Customer Development and existing software platforms.

This is the meetup group is where chief technology officers and the people that support them can come together for a heathly chat on topics that cover business, technology, strategy, and execution.

We are a group of people in IT that want to exchange ideas on best practices in Application Lifecycle Management.

Discussions around Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) including but not limited to Visual Studio 2010/2012, TFS 2012, SQL Server 2012, Microsoft Hadoop on Azure. For architects and enthusiasts.

Stay up-to-date with the latest Ruby and Ruby on Rails happenings. Network with other Ruby developers.

Live in MD or DC area and want to get together and talk about NoSQL technologies like Hadoop, HBase, CouchDB, Cassandra? Whether you're an expert or an interested novice, everyone is welcome to come and discuss NoSQL technologies, get and trade tips, network, and learn more from each other.

Do you have an idea that could be your organization's next big thing, but you are unsure of what to do next? Innovate DC is a community for intrapreneurs; employees looking to create change and get things done within an organization. We believe that innovation can happen inside organizations of any size.  All you need is someone with an idea and a champion to help navigate the waters of change.  We offer a support organization for intrapreneurs and champions that will focus on providing content …

This is a great group for I.T. Professionals to meet outside of the office to relax, socialize, talk about sports, politics, life, and the ever growing world of Information Technology. We emphasize finding new friends and associates with similar backgrounds to network with and do exciting things. Dinners, forums, happy hours, adventures, sporting events, and yes, parties are just a few of the types of activities we will partake.

B'more on Rails is a community of Baltimore folks who use the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails application framework. We meet monthly and welcome newcomers of all experience levels, whether you've never touched Ruby or have been using it for years. http://www.bmoreonrails.org / http://twitter.com/bmoreonrails B'more on Rails is dedicated to a harassment-free meetup experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found at: http://www.meetup.com/bmore-on-rails/pages/B%27m …

Intel Analytics DC is a group led by the HumanGeo team to foster learning and sharing of Big Data analysis and geospatial techniques to further the state of the art for intelligence applications. This group is founded on a principle of open sharing of interesting ideas related to: highly scalable 'Big Data' architectures data-centric programming tricks and techniques emerging tools and analysis paradigms Join us now to stay up-to-date with interactive talks from some of the most innovative, i …