APLN Chicago is a community of Agile professionals meeting in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. We are focused on learning, innovation, and thought leadership in Agile. APLN Chicago meetings will provide an invaluable opportunity to participate in that expansion and innovation of Agile in Chicago. Visit our main website at http://aplnchicago.org !

This meet up consists of industry professionals that have been involved in the development of software for five or more years. The Software Development Community is an informal and interactive group of professionals that have a passion for software development, thus are interested in employing best practices and sharing their knowledge and experiences. This Software Development Community doesn't focus on any one technology (Java, .Net, Ruby, PHP, etc.), methodology (waterfall, agile, etc.), pr …

Meet other local Agile enthusiasts interested in sharing experiences in Agile & Lean project management practices, tools, and coaching and teaching techniques. Our meetings are held at 5:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at the Miller Inn.

The Chicago Lean Startup Circle is a group of smart and driven high-tech entrepreneurs that have learned how to discover customers and build products they want. Lean Startups (which can include for profit and not for profit organizations, new product/innovation organizations within larger companies and even government agencies) achieve success faster than most because they get out of the building to talk to customers, validate business model assumptions as quickly and cheaply as possible, use ag …

I decided to start this group because I'd like to meet with other people using Clojure. The purpose of the group is to share and learn about Clojure through presentations, group projects, and so on. Anyone interested in learning more about Clojure is welcome!

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 …

The Chicago Agile Methodology Meetup Group is an informal professional group focused on developing relationships, exchanging ideas, and fostering agile project innovation. We provide an open, comfortable environment for fellow Scrum Masters, Agile Gurus, and newcomers alike to meet and discuss related news, best practices, tips and anything else that might arise in this exciting and rapidly evolving project management niche. We welcome people from all backgrounds, not just IT, to come learn an …

This group was created to bring together the various software development groups in Chicago. Going to other communities has been very rewarding in the past, and now let us drop all the boundaries between communities. What can we talk about? Positivember writing good code writing bad code duct tape programming client challenges co-worker challenges sdlc patterns trolls, and what they mean to you. motivating/encouraging news discouraging/unmotivating news tools & tech gadgets

Software development professionals who made Microsoft .NET their tool of choice.  The core purpose of this group is to strengthen the Chicago .NET community through knowledge sharing and networking.  Meetup topics focus on the Microsoft stack, attempting to balance basic concepts with advanced concepts. Note to recruiters and job seekers: there is a Job Board forum in the Discussions tab of this website.

Startup Collaboratory is a group of Entrepreneurs, Business Professionals, and Business Owners who meet to...• Collaborate on starting and growing businesses• Share viewpoints and generate new ideas• Network for help overcoming business challengesAt Startup Collaboratory Meetups, selected members deliver short presentations describing their business, customers, and challenges. After each presentation, a moderated discussion explores new ways of viewing and addressing the member's business challe …

We'll be exploring Ruby web application development, mostly through the Ruby on Rails framework, but we'll cover other topics like setting up your system for Rails dev, testing and behavior driven development, JavaScript programming (backbone.js, node.js, etc), amongst other code related things. We don't require that you know Ruby to join, but it's going to be a technical group, so it's probably only a good fit for actual or aspiring web application developers. That being said, if you want to c …

A monthly gathering dedicated to the exploration of software as a craft. We engage in hands-on practice and technical discussions facilitated by software luminaries -- all in the spirit of continuous learning. If you're interested in product craftsmanship, please check out Chicago Product Craftsmanship.

Currently, the NEW Agile Users Group meets bi-monthly. Each meeting features a brief presentation or interactive discussion as well as networking opportunities. The NEW Agile Users Group engages with both new and seasoned Agile practitioners – within IT and outside of IT. The group seeks to educate via a tutorial and networking focus where members and other attendees discover, share, and develop tools and techniques for becoming great Agile leaders in their organizations.

We are a community of passionate experience designers interested in getting together to share stories, tools, project experiences and events! We explore human-computer interaction, agile design, user experience, frontend development, information architecture, interaction design, usability testing among other topics that help us deliver engaging customer experiences.

We are a community of practitioners who come together to share and learn. In the process, we'll explore the cross-cutting collection of values, principles and practices of the Agile Methodologies

Find out what the Braintree crew is up to and where we'll be hanging out next. We like getting together with our users and anyone interested in payments, scaling, high availability, the video game Fez, and any other general geekery.

We wish to setup a local community to meet with local Professionals utlizing Agile Scrum methodologies for software development

This is a group of Scrum Masters from throughout the Midwest who are getting together to share stories, tips, and ideas. They are passionate about the role of Scrum Master and the impact they can have on organizational culture, Agile transformation, and through coaching Agile teams. As this is a Community of Practice, the only criteria for attending would be that you are currently and actively filling the role of Scrum Master on an Agile team. Looking forward to sharing and learning with all of …

To bring together Chicago's top IT minds to network and socialize in a fun laid back environment where you can have drink with like-minded people to share thoughts, experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. This will also be an opportunity to take advantage of opportunities in career advancement and growth.

Geekfest is a gathering of software development geeks every Tuesday at noon. It originally started at Obtiva back in 2007, and now it's at Groupon.

This group is geared toward professionals in the greater Milwaukee area who are interested in promoting the value of software quality assurance through networking, discussion and training.

Are you a ScrumMaster or Agile Ninja, or interested in honing skills to become one? Are you a professional in software, web, or mobile development, or in an industry that would benefit from Agile philosophies and Scrum methodologies? Would you like to share and discuss best practices with others? Are you interested in meeting up with others with similar interests? If you answered yes to any of these questions then join our group! We hold monthly networking meetings in downtown Chicago to discuss …

This group will be focused on discussing and learning about UX Strategies. This group is distinct in the sense that it will discuss bigger picture UX involvement as opposed to day to day UX activities that may be project related. Since UX is starting to take more influential roles and earlier in the development life cycle, I think it would be valuable to discuss different strategic outlooks and experiences.