Architecture Training & Events

How to Change the World - Buenos Aires, Argentina

Organised by Agiles@BsAs

En la próxima reunión tendremos el lujo de contar con la visita internacional de Jurgen Appelo en una charla entitulada "How to Change the World":?How do I make my managers more Agile???How can I convince developers to educate themselves???How can I make customers more cooperative???How do I start a European network of Agile and Lean practitioners??When transforming organizations and other social systems people usually encounter obstacles.

Monthly Meeting - Chattanooga, United States

Organised by Chattanooga PHP Developers

Doors will open at 6:30pm; the presentation begins at 7:00pm.Hey Guys!A correction to tomorrow night's meeting topic -- we're going to have a presentation on NoSQL databases.  Ryan Macy is our presenter, and he's going to cover some of the NoSQL database options out there in the wild, what their basic architecture is (key value store, document store, big table, etc) and most importantly, what's a good use case for one vs. the other.See you Tuesday at Utiliflex at 7:00pm!

May Meeting - Testing the Front and the Rear and ??? - Boulder, United States

Organised by Boulder JS

Hey all,I'm starting to organize the May meeting of Boulder JS. I will be speaking about front and back end testing using Mocha, doing asynchronous testing, and integration testing using Zombie.js. Basic knowledge of TDD is assumed, though I'll gloss over it from the beginning.If people don't feel confident yet with testing, this will make you confident.

User Experience and agile - Melbourne, Australia

Organised by Melbourne Scrum User Group

This session will be centred around user experience and how it can integrate into agile developments.We will have an overview of Agile UX from Peter Grierson from REA and then have a panel discussion relating to your real world examples of Agile UX at workPlease let us know in the comments whether you would like to be part of the panel, or have any other suggestions for the session.A central location will be announced prior to the meetup.

Agile Tour Sydney - Review and Retrospective - Sydney, Australia

Organised by Agile Alliance Australia - Sydney Chapter

Agile Tour Sydney 2011 Review and Retrospective! Took place december, 9th Fri & 10th Sat at the University of Technology, SydneyAgile Tour Sydney was a 2 day non-profit conference run by practitioners for practitioners who are directly involved in Agile delivery and who are prepared to actively participate and share experiences. Thank you all for the wonderful Agile Tour Sydney 2011 edition. In order to move on to the 2012 edition, let's meet and review the previous event.

Pacific Edition: Notes from the Scrum Gathering - 9pm Eastern online - Cary, United States

Organised by Agile3d Distributed Agile Congress

May had a few interesting events - The Scrum Gathering in Atlanta, and the Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds in DC. Join me for an open space discussion from those who attended as they summarize their favorite gems of the conferences. (yes, I'm going to both, so you get at least my thoughts)I'l like to extend a special invite to our Aussie friends if they can make it at their lunch hour. I know our European friends may be asleep at this time, so we'll do another Atlantic Edition.

Ruby Study Group - Los Angeles, United States

Organised by The Los Angeles Ruby/Rails Meetup Group

Introduction to Ruby on RailsHave you been meaning to learn to build web sites with Ruby on Rails? Now is the time to get going. The LA Ruby Study Group will be reading Agile Web Development With Rails (4th edition).Please make sure you are using the 4th edition of the book. Earlier editions will not work. If you don't already have a copy, I recommend you purchase the ebook from the Pragmatic Programmers site so you get the version recently updated for Rails 3.2

GOTO Amsterdam 2012 - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Organised by Trifork & Dutchworks

International Software Development Conference

Soirée Alt.Net Mai - Paris, France

Organised by Alt.Net France

Veuillez réserver la soirée du 24!Le format sera de 2/3 sessions de 30 min + discussions. Au programme: WCF Async Queryable Services, Le NoSQL au service de l?incrémental+guestsCette soirée sera un peu différente de d'habitude car nous avons voulu changer un peu les formats. Nous allons essayer de faire plusieurs présentations plus courtes au lieu d'une seule grosse. Cela permettra de dynamiser un peu les choses et de laisser plus de place aux échanges.

Soirée TDD en pratique - rencontre mensuelle Software Craftsmanship - Paris, France

Organised by Paris Software Craftsmanship Community

Jeudi 24 Mai, rencontre spéciale TDD de votre communauté Software Craftsmanship Paris : amenez vos portables (un pour deux), et pairez avec un autre apprenti craftsman pour pratiquer TDD sur un kata ou un sur vrai sujet réduit pour tenir en temps limité.N'hésitez pas à amener vos idées de sujets, katas voire même vos séquences de tests prédéfinies.

IT Martini - save the date - Columbus, United States

Organised by TechLife Columbus

5/24 - IT Martini 21: Agile IT Ability | Presented By COHAA

A Learning Retrospective - Ottawa, Canada

Organised by Ottawa Scrum Users Group

Please join us for a learning, hands-on retrospective! During this meetup we will:- Participate in a retrospective on Agile Ottawa events over the last year- Ask questions and discuss various retrospective techniquesWe are pleased to have this session hosted by Mark Levison.Networking starts at 6:00, and the event at 6:30.As always, the event is free and refreshments will be served.Information on Mark can be found at

Code retreat - Bucure?ti, Romania

Organised by The Bucharest Agile Software Meetup Group

In our day to day jobs we have the sense of wanting to get it done, that causes to rush. And so we try to cut corners, but sometimes we do not cut the corners in the best way because we do not know enough.During a code retreat we use pair-programming, which is wonderful because you can learn a lot from each other. We write our code using TDD and the known design rules. We focus purely on writing beautiful code, there is no pressure to actually produce a working solution for the problem.

In The Brain of Pekka Klarck: Acceptance testing and ATDD with Robot Framework - London, United Kingdom

The Robot Framework is a generic open source test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). It has an easy-to-use tabular syntax for creating test cases and its testing capabilities can be extended by generic and custom test libraries (a.k.a. fixtures). In this session, Pekka Klarck provides a thorough introduction of the most important features of the framework, its history, and the typical use cases.

Lets talk about Testing Methodologies - San Francisco, United States

Organised by iPhone Testers

Thank you all who came out to our April event. Many folks wanted to chat about various testing methodologies and talk about advantages and disadvantages and share our experiences.We will geek out on QA methodologies, test automation topics and venture into some load and performance concerns.We're informal, community centric, and much more hip than other QA groups

Ruby Study Group - Los Angeles, United States

Organised by The Los Angeles Ruby/Rails Meetup Group

Introduction to Ruby on RailsHave you been meaning to learn to build web sites with Ruby on Rails? Now is the time to get going. The LA Ruby Study Group will be reading Agile Web Development With Rails (4th edition).Please make sure you are using the 4th edition of the book. Earlier editions will not work. If you don't already have a copy, I recommend you purchase the ebook from the Pragmatic Programmers site so you get the version recently updated for Rails 3.2

DDD-NYC Monthly Meetup - , United States

Organised by DDD-NYC

To be announced shortly.Please don't forget to bring a photo ID to get access to our meeting location.

Ruby Study Group - Los Angeles, United States

Organised by The Los Angeles Ruby/Rails Meetup Group

For our first book, we are reading "Everyday Scripting in Ruby for Teams, Testers, and You" by Brian Marick. This project-based book will help everyone learn the why and how of creating projects in Ruby. We will be reading about two chapters per week and working our way through the exercises at the end of each chapter - and any others people come up with during the week.

Fundamentals of Unit Testing - San Jose, United States

Organised by Silicon Valley Perl

Andrew Hampe of Yahoo will do a presentation on fundamentals of unit testing. More details to come.

Gojko Adzic's Test Driven Development Workshop - London, United Kingdom

*To register for this event, please go here * TDD expert Gojko Adzic is returning to Skills Matter. If you are looking to learn the fundamentals of Test Driven Development by actually doing it, then this 2-Day interactive course by world leading expert Gojko Adzic is for you! Be prepared to be immersed in a realistic TDD project, where you will learn the principles and practices of TDD, as well as how to implement them in the real-world.

Meet the Agile recruiters - Melbourne, Australia

Organised by Agile Business Analysts, Melbourne

Want to know what's going on in the Agile recruitment space in Melbourne?This month we bring you a panel of four recruiters who deal with Agile roles Given our agenda at this group there will be a particular focus on BA, PM and QA type gigs.If you have particular questions feel free to post them below on this page's comments.

Regular Meetup - Dordrecht, Netherlands

Organised by Agile Holland

De reguliere Agile Holland meetup begint om 18:00 met een eenvoudige doch voedzame maaltijd gevolgd door één of meer praatjes, workshops en/of openspace sessies.Heb je een idee voor een thema? Meld het! Het staat alle leden vrij om los van de reguliere meetups extra meetups te organiseren. Mocht je daar hulp bij nodig hebben, neem dan contact op via info@agileholland.com.

Automated Testing - Chicago, United States

Organised by Chicago Agile Open Space

Automated TestingLightning Talk #1'Demo of Test-driven development (TDD) to create a suite of unit tests that run automatically with every build.'Lightning Talk #2 - Satya Kamineni'Continuation of the hands-on demo of how a project team successfully incorporated JBehave tests, into the build process, to verify messaging components.'Lightning Talk #3Automating web UI testing with Selenium.Lightning Talk #4

Intelligent Caching architecture for content distribution (June 2012) - , United Kingdom

Organised by London Web Performance Group

*** Update ***Max has had a great opportunity to go and launch aiCache in Japan so he wont be araound for the next 3 months so we are tentatively postponing this talk until December...Venue TBC confirmed later too!*************Max Robbins from aiCache will be talking about next generation hosting architectures for scaling, content distribution and caching.More details later on!

IASA NL meetup - Den Haag, Netherlands

Organised by IASA NL

16:00 – 16:30 Inloop en welkom16:30 – 17:30 Viktor Grgic - Agile Architecting, doing more with less17:30 – 18:15 Diner18:15 – 19:15 Sessie 2 – Fishbowl – interactieve discussie19:15 – 20:00 Sessie 3 – Iasa, next steps, planning, trainingen, interactieve discussie etc.20:00 – 21:00 Borrel en netwerkenAgile Architecting, doing more with less

Free talk- In The Brain of Doug Judd: Hypertable - London, United Kingdom

In this presentation, Doug Judd, the original creator of Hypertable and CEO of Hypertable Inc. will present an overview of Hypertable, covering design and architecture, database model, salient features, and case studies. He will also present a comparison of Hypertable and some of the other popular open source scalable databases available today.

An Introduction to DDD - Warrington, United Kingdom

Organised by NxtGenUG

Ian Cooper travels up from London to enlighten us all about DDD !! Not to talk about the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper events !! but Domain Driven Design!

In The Brain of Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin): The S.O.L.I.D. Principles of OO and Agile Design - London, United Kingdom

What happens to software? Why does is rot over time? How does an Agile development team prevent this rot, and prevent good designs from becoming legacy code? What is the shape of good design? In this talk Uncle Bob presents the SOLID principles of object oriented software design. These principles govern the structure and interdependencies between classes in large object oriented systems.

HPCC Systems One-Click Thor, & Spinning up a Stack (AWS CloudFormation) - , United States

Organised by NYC Amazon Web Services User Group

Presentation by1. Charles Kaminski (HPCC Systems One-Click Thor) is a Senior Architect for the technology department at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a 1.5 billion division of LexisNexis. In this role, Charles consults on various lines of business and customers regarding open source HPC solutions and data analytics to manage Big Data challenges.2. Brian Gupta (AWS CloudFormation) is a principal in Brandorr Group LLC, an Amazon Web Services Solution Provider.

Practical Web Application Security with ASP.NET - San Francisco, United States

Organised by The San Francisco .NET User Group

This session is a hands-on introduction to the web application security threats using the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) top 10 list of potential security flaws. The OWASP Top Ten provides a powerful awareness list for web application security and represents a broad consensus about what the most critical web application security flaws are.