Architecture Training & Events

In The Brain of Linda Rising: Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves - London, United Kingdom

Linda Rising -- renowned expert on patterns, retrospectives, influence strategies, agile development, and the change process -- comes to Skills Matter this February to tackle Deception and Estimation. Cognitive scientists tell us that we are hardwired for deception; to be overly optimistic about outcomes. In fact, we surely wouldn't have survived without this trait.

The Stack - Liverpool .Net User Group - February 2012 - Liverpool, United Kingdom

Organised by The Stack

The Stack is a monthly .NET User Group supported by Mando Group in Liverpool. The user group is totally free and is a place where developers from in and around Liverpool and the North West of the UK can get together, hear some great speakers and chat about the latest developments in the .NET world.For the first session of 2012 we have two great speakers for you and of course we will be holding our monthly SWAG raffle for attendees.

Windows Phone Development Part 3 of 4 - suite 100, United States

File -> New Project to the Marketplace - Chris Rajczi and Michael Perry will present part 3 of 4 of this series at the Dallas XAML User Group. In session three we’ll finish any application polish and testing as required and submit the application to the Windows Phone marketplace.

Let's meet with Joe Little and talk about planning! - Cluj, Romania

Organised by The Cluj Napoca Agile Software Meetup Group

Joe Little is a Certified Scrum Trainer and will be our special guest for this event. The main topic of discussion will be "Adaptive (agile) planning and specific suggestions on Release Planning". Bring your questions about the specified topic or SCRUM in general and let's discuss them together.You can find more info about Joe here: ... and have only 20 available seats so please register here if you would like to join us.Note: The community meetups are free of charge.

February DCRUG: Penetration Testing and Compojure/Rails Comparison - Washington, United States

Organised by DC Ruby Users Group

Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Preparing Your Web App for Penetration Testing" Aaron Higbee - A security expert will walk us through why you would want your application "pentested", what that process entails, and how your application's security can be improved based on the results of that assessment.

Russel Winder's Python Workshop - London, United Kingdom

Russel Winder, author of author of "Python for Rookies" and involved with the Python-CSP parallelism framework and the SCons build frameworks, comes to Skills Matter in 2012 for his four day Python workshop. Start right from the basics, Russel will introduce you to the Python programming language, while discussing strategy and rationale. By the second day, you will be confident enough to carry out TDD (Test Driven Development)

Eric Evans Domain Driven Design Hands-On Immersion Workshop - London, United Kingdom

Finding and exploiting domain models is key to success with large software systems. This 4-day workshop (authored by the godfather of Domain Driven Design, Eric Evans) will weave together lecture, discussion and classroom exercises, including hands-on coding projects to provide you with the skills to introduce these concepts to your own projects.

APN Event: Is the Military Agile? - Auckland, New Zealand

Organised by Agile Auckland

Agile AucklandThis month we have a speaker Bruce Keightley, Certified Scrum Master, and Scrum Product Owner joining us from Christchurch. Bruce has given this talk at the Christchurch network where is was well received.**Is the military Agile?**Military personnel - short hair, disciplined, trained to follow orders, regimented in their thinking and their actions ... or are they?

Flow games night - Manchester, United Kingdom

Organised by Limited WIP Society, Manchester

Some say play is one of the best ways to learn. In the February meetup we'll be running a series of games that will help you to get to grips with Kanban concepts around flow. We will also be running a series of sensory exercises and perceptual experiences to demonstrate the importance of "Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools" (Agile manifesto).If your organisation would like to host this meetup please contact Ian Carroll (icarroll@thoughtworks.com) asap with details.

CSM + PK: Scrum + optional Personal Kanban workshop in London - London, United Kingdom

When Personal Kanban (PK) workshop with Jim Benson Monday 20 February, 2012 Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) workshop with Simon Bennett Tuesday 21 - Wednesday 22 February, 2012 About the Courses Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) This 2-day Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course is an immersive learning experience involving a highly interactive mix of seminars, group discussions, team activities, games and role-plays introducing the concepts and application principles of the Scrum framework.

February 2012 - Freelancing, Agile, and beers. - Gainesville, United States

Organised by The Gainesville Web Development Group

This months theme: Time management.When you think about what most software development is at the end of the day, it is a lot of time management. As developers we could spend hours, days, weeks on the same problem refactoring, refining, and polishing. This approach is great for pet projects and our personal interests, but usually doesn't go over so well on the commercial landscape.

Vodafone Case Study - Sydney, Australia

Organised by Agile Alliance Australia - Sydney Chapter

Agile and Native Handset Applications.More details to come, with confirmation of venue.

Agile Principles Series: "The Effectiveness of Face-to-Face Conversation" - Chicago, United States

Organised by The Chicago Agile Methodology Group

Join us as we continue our exploration of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto with "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation."Our guest facilitator for this session is group member Steve Young. Steve has almost 30 years of iterative development experience, and is currently an Agile Transformation Consultant helping Sears Holdings Mobile Group become Agile.

Software Development Techniques - Kings Park, Australia

Organised by Agile Alliance Australia - Perth Chapter

Presentation and discussion on Software Development Techniques use in Agile Teams

Zapppers India 2012, Bangalore - London, United Kingdom

Organised by Zappers - Software Testing Community

Zappers is a meet up where testers, both experts and amateurs come together to make connections, compete and of course, enjoy themselves. At the event we will have numerous teams, each testing various online and offline applications. In a limited period of time, teams look to beat the clock and log as many bugs as they can, competing for a cash prize. All of this accompanied by a buffet and post-work beer, promises to be a great evening. Register on meetup.com today for your free place.

Powerful Pattern Matching in F# / UX Techniques - St Louis, United States

Organised by St. Louis ALT.NET Meetup

*6PM - 7PM BYOB/snacks and social time *7PM - 9PM PresentationsPowerful Pattern Matching in F#F# opens a whole new world to .NET developers: the functional world. Pattern matching is one of the killer features of functional languages, and F# takes pattern matching to a whole new level. This talk will introduce the phenomenal cosmic power of custom patterns in F#. See this cool language in action and learn a new way to think about some common programming problems.

Monthly Book Club Discussion - Sydney, Australia

Organised by Agile Alliance Australia - Sydney Chapter

We have been having this MeetUp for a while but haven't been listing it on the group page, but this year we want to be more open and let new people come along if they are interested.The basic idea is: each month the group picks a book to read, everyone goes off and reads it during the month and then we get together to discuss it, rinse and repeat. Normally each meetup last for about an hour.If you know a good Agile/Lean/Scrum/Kanban.

ConFoo 2012 - Montréal, Canada

Organised by ConFoo

PHP Québec, Montréal-Python, Montreal.rb, Montreal Jug, W3Qc, OWASP Montréal, Android Montreal, are proud to announce the third edition of the ConFoo Conference. From February 29th to March 2nd, 2012, international experts in Java, .Net, PHP, Python and Ruby will present solutions for developers and project managers the prestigious Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, located downtown Montréal.

Scrum Smells and Anti Patterns - Melbourne, Australia

Organised by Melbourne Scrum User Group

This month the group talks about common smells and anti patterns.  We will have a short intro sharing the concept of scrum smells and then open questions and discussions to a panel.Some of our volunteer panel members are; *Erik Petersen *Bruce Taylor *Reg De Silva *Neil Killick *(Anyone else? Just edit yourself in here)You might also like to check out this wiki on scrum smells!

Ruby Wednesday(!!) Study Group - 2/29 - San Francisco, United States

Organised by Women Who Code (SF)

Celebrate leap year with us! We're building a Rails app from scratch week by week. =D Make sure you're on the google group at: !We're meeting on Wednesday instead of Tuesday this week because the Lightning Talks are on Tuesday 2/28.We're building bridgetroll, an app to help Railsbridge with institutional memory. bridgetroll will handle volunteer signups and coordination. Along the way, we're learning all the parts of making a real-world Rails app, from TDD to production.

ChicagoRuby: Downtown - Modular Apps and Internal APIs - Chicago, United States

Organised by ChicagoRuby.org - Chicago Ruby on Rails

Modular Apps and Internal APIsAs an application becomes more complex or needs to provide multiple services, breaking it into smaller applications can save you time in development, deployment and testing. A simple API between the apps can help keep them DRY. This talk will focus on how and why we employ these ideas at Lab42, and also provide some tips and gotchas.About the PresenterKabari Hendrick is the CTO at Lab42 Market Research and a generally spectacular guy.

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.

Pittsburgh PHP Developers Group Monthly Meetup - Pittsburgh, United States

Organised by Pittsburgh PHP Developers Group

Join us in a PHP centered, roundtable discussion covering topics ranging from learning PHP and basic programming topics to mobile development, application architecture and more advanced topics. With members with a wide range of skill levels utilizing PHP as academics, business and hobbyists, we foster lively discussion about technology, while maintaining applicability to PHP. Please join us the first Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm (sharp, preferably)

March DCRUG: Agile Reqs Best Practices + TBD - Washington, United States

Organised by DC Ruby Users Group

Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Good Stories: Agile Requirements Best Practices" by Blunders - "Journey to the land of good stories, where you'll get an entertaining (and enlightening)

PMI Agile Certified Practioner Prep Workshop Save the Date - Columbus, United States

Organised by TechLife Columbus

Save the Date! PMICOC, COHAA and Agile Transformation Are Proud to Collaborate on OfferingPMI® Agile Certified Practitioner Workshop3 Day Workshop(21 PDUs – Meets PMI-ACPSM Requirement)March 13, 14, 15th1500 West Third Avenue, Suite 126-128Columbus, Ohio 43212Registration will be available at: www.pmicoc.org Starting in January 2012Why Obtain the New PMI-ACPsm Certification?

Monthly Agile BA meet-up (schedule a topic!) - Melbourne, Australia

Organised by Agile Business Analysts, Melbourne

Shawn Callahan of Anecdote comes and share some tips about storytelling and the importance of narrative when we communicate with our business partners and peers.The Anecdote approach to corporate storytelling is relevant to agile business analysts because it is built upon the ideas of facilitation, discovery, alignment and evolution.the format of this will be a facilitated discussion by Shawn.

What does Agile, Lean and Systems Thinking have in common? - Kings Park, Australia

Organised by Agile Alliance Australia - Perth Chapter

Are these the same thing or are they different, we will explore these areas and how they are affecting the industry.

Acceptance Test Driven Development - Middleburg Heights, United States

Organised by Burning River Developers

by Tim Hoolihan, Josh Reed Schramm, and Kevin Berridge. Tim is going to show us Specflow in .NET, Josh is going to show us Cucumber in Ruby, and Kevin is going to show us RSpec/Capybara in Ruby. You will learn what Acceptance Testing is, what it's for, and how to use it.

Samedi .NET - Architecture - Sujet à déterminer - Montréal, Canada

Organised by Communauté .NET Montréal

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DevWeek 2012 - London, United Kingdom

Organised by Bearpark Publishing Ltd

The UK's biggest event for software developers, with 100 technical sessions and 18 all-day workshops on a wide range of cutting-edge topics.