Are you a marketer looking to apply the Agile principles & process your developers rave about? You've come to the right place. The Agile Marketing meetup will serve as a place to learn from and network with other pioneers in the Agile Marketing field.

The Tri-Valley/ East Bay Agile Leadership Network (TV/EB-ALN) is a Agile/Lean community based in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area that includes counties of Amador Valley, Livermore Valley, and San Ramon Valley. It includes cities of Pleasanton, Livermore, Dublin, San Ramon, Danville as well as other East Bay locations in Contra Costa county like Walnut Creek and Concord. Our purpose is to evangelize and educate Agile and Lean skills to our members as well as building our community to serve as …

Is managing projects your bread and butter? Using JIRA to do that? Well, then this meetup is for you. If you are a project manager and use JIRA day to day then this meetup is for you. Come along and share your tips and tricks for managing projects with JIRA and GreenHopper.

This is a group for Project Managers interested in Product development or in a career change: from Project to Product Manager. I started this group after making the change myself and realizing that there were a lot of others like me trying to do the same. So, this group is for everyone who needs help to make the move as well as learn more about how to manage product develoment. Project managers, Product managers, start-up entrepreneurs and Data analysts crowd is expected.

The Silicon Valley Agile Leadership Network (SV-ALN) is the Silicon Valley’s largest Agile/Lean community. Launched in 2012, we’ve grown from 17 members to nearly 600 members.  Our purpose is to evangelize and educate Agile and Lean skills to our members as well as building our community to serve as a networking platform. Our members include agile coaches, scrum masters, executives, project managers, product managers, engineers, QA, designers, and many others from Apple, Adobe, Cisco, Comcast In …

Share the adventures and challenges of managing agile software developers and teams. Each session will start with a short presentation on a topic of interest. After that comes a facilitated discussion where participants can share challenges that they are facing and get feedback, ideas, and support from the group. The event is free! Come out, join the discussion, and become a better manager.

Agile Coaching Circles are intended provide support for working ScrumMasters, agile coaches and project managers who are ready to polish their coaching skills by participating in an extended community of active, practicing coaches. Let's get together to share our successes and challenges with each other in order to support newer coaches, enhance our coaching skills and deepen our craft.

What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more, more quickly. Lean UX is about getting more done better for the same investment. Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing your design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing research, testing your hypotheses, and building better hypotheses quickly, based on more information, based on reality. Read 10 Principles for Lean UX on Luxr The intersection between Lean Thinking, Agile Development and UX is a …

We're a community for anyone interested in developing and deploying web applications with HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, OOP, MVC, jQuery, AJAX, Cloud Server, and Agile. We meet once or twice a month for discussion, collaboration, and networking with other like-minded people.  We have a terrific group of people from varying technical backgrounds.  All are welcome! For more information about us, and what we do, visit us at CodingDojo.co

What is this Meetup group about? This Meetup group features an ongoing series of workshops on core startup concepts that can help you to build a better, more viable business. Our goal is to have a Meetup workshop on a new topic about every month or so. Who is it for? If you have started a company, want to start a company, or are looking to become a better CEO, CTO, or other senior operator of a startup, then this Meetup is for you! What are the topics we will look at? These workshops focus on bu …

Product Manager Breakfast is a relaxed conversation between Product Manager peers. The goal is for this to be a safe place where we vent, trade tips, and discuss the challenges and opportunities for our role. Note: this event is only for Product Managers. We've found that having people in other roles - even if they know a lot about product management - can make the conversation difficult.

Startup Product, a movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective. Startup Product welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence. Everyone is encouraged to contribute their point of view, w …

The PM PM SIG, an open forum community of practice, promotes excellence in project management and collaboration among Silicon Valley professionals. Our informal meetings facilitate the exchange of ideas, best practices, new methodologies, tools, resources and networking with local experts who deliver compelling, timely programs. We seek to grow future leaders and welcome all who are interested.

What is Lean Coffee? Lean Coffee is a structured, agenda-less meeting.Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking.Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. Who should attend? Everyone! From beginners to seasoned Leanists. Why attend? You like good coffee don't you?! ;-) And there are always great topics brought to the table; everything from "lean startup in large organizations" to "collective quality ownership" and "cus …

Who Should Join: Any current or aspiring project manager should join this community to learn, share, and have fun. There are project managers from broad section of industries that meet to share best practices, horror stories, and all that comes with managing people, deadlines, and budgets. We meet monthly to meet new friends, connect with colleagues, and to share our experiences. Why Members Should Join: You should join not only for fun and camaraderie but to learn. Have you just been assigned …

The SF Bay Area User Group (SF-AUG) serves the San Francisco Bay Area with the following objectives: * Share and learn Atlassian product knowledge, best practices, and case studies with fellow current and prospective users. * Address the needs of both Atlassian product system administrators as well as novice and experienced product users. * Network and socialize with fellow Atlassian product users. * Meet 4 times a year on Wednesday or Thursday evenings in locations throughout San Francisco, th …

This is a group for Certified ScrumMasters of all levels. The mission of this group is to provide a space for ScrumMasters to share their experiences and to learn from each other.

Create a Meetup account and register for this event by April 19th and earn a free event this year! The Bay Area Organization Development Network (BAodn) is a not-for-profit organization created and run by members supporting an organization development (OD) community of practice. With over 30 years history BAodn continues to evolve connecting people who are dedicated to expanding their knowledge, skills and experience in the field of OD. The BAodn is recruiting Board Members!  Please check the a …

The Bay Area Limited WIP Society is intended to be the home of Kanban for the software development community. We welcome all those people doing Lean and Kanban, talking about Lean and Kanban, or wanting to find out about Lean and Kanban to join us. We meet regularly to share ideas, meet other Lean and Kanban enthusiasts, promote Lean and Kanban and harness innovation within the software industry. Get involved, have fun, become more efficient! To find out more visit the official limitedwipsociety …

This is a group for anyone interested in applying lean startup thinking inside large organizations. We are entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and corporate innovators who want to test ideas for new products, services, and business models within established companies. Learn how to: - Apply lean startup thinking to the enterprise - Design experiments that align product, business and customer - Conduct internal customer development Whenever possible, we will present actual case studies from large comp …

Each month we will have a startup engineer or entrepreneur share technology tips, and tricks that helped build their business. This is a highly technical group and in the past we covered topics such as "Scaling PInterest", "Introduction to Data Science", "Making Mobile Development Less Painfull", .... Come join the group and learn about how we build technology startups here in Silicon Valley.

This is a group for anyone interested in going green at the individual and group level via rapid prototyping of ideas. Let's learn by doing and sharing. We try to address two major questions in the context of every topic: 1. What can we do at a grassroots level to effect a positive change in our near neighborhoods? 2. What ideas can we implement to help influence larger bodies of the community and government? Our focus is on ideas that we can implement where we are and whose impact can be measur …

Lean Startup Circle is dedicated to applying lean startup thinking and building lean startup leadership. We bring the San Jose lean startup community together in a variety of formats (many of which involve beer) to learn from each other. What works? What doesn't? Is lean just a buzzword? Or can it really help build businesses? * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

This Meetup Group is about the Lean Startup Methodology developed by Eric Ries. It is centered on the implementation of this methodology to the Internet startups where participants work. Participants will be able to share their successes and difficulties of implementation with the group so as to create a learning process. We will focus more on tools than concepts, and on practice than on theory, as our interest is in the immediate implementation of these tools in our startups and the lessons lea …

The popularity and use of DRUPAL has grown by leaps and bounds; thanks to the vibrant community it has developed around it. The South Bay DRUPAL meetup is another effort in building and strengthening the local Drupal Community. Please join to discuss new and exciting Drupal-related stuff or just socialize with like-minded people!

A community of aspiring and existing Product Managers. Want to be a Product Manager? This group is for people interested in entering or learning more about Product Management and for existing Product Managers who wish to be mentors and share their experiences. We will bring in product experts to share their knowledge, help build product skills, have networking opportunities and also work on projects together. These projects can be personal or volunteer challenges posed by non-profits with a goal …

Meet other local current or aspiring engineering leaders who are interested in Engineering Leadership as a strategic competency. Discuss engineering leadership and its aspects: team-building, direction-setting, career planning, project experiences, education, certification, recruiting, organization structure, inter-departmental relations, etc.