Design is finally taking center stage in the business world. This presents an amazing opportunity for us to create something meaningful. Learning how to effectively incorporate design into the startup process allows us to change the way products are built, and quite possibly change the world. This group is for anyone interested in design and product development. We are exploring the art of entrepreneurship.

Austin's Community of Practice for Kanban, Kaizen, Second-Generation Agile and Lean Software Development

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium/Webdriver to test their web applications. The Austin 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 Austin area. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium/Webdriver and topics extend through related …

The new entrepreneurship era is all about customers and their problems. Lean startup is a collection of techniques built around maximizing validated customer learning thought fast Build/Measure/Learn iteration loops. We're a group of entrepreneurs taking lean startup and customer development techniques to practice in our startups. We're ready to talk implementation and share data from our experiments. * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

Studies have found that pair programming produces cleaner code, facilitates learning and improves productivity. Pairs often find that seemingly "impossible" problems become easy or even quick, or at least possible to solve when they work together. Let's get together for pair programming in Ruby and Rails. Whether you've never written a line of code or you're the most experienced Rubyist out there, you have something to teach and something to learn. No egos, no intimidation. Come out and experien …