Are you an IT professional or software developer and want to learn more about Agile Software development methodologies (XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, etc) and techniques (unit testing, TDD, CI, big visible charts, etc)? Are you an experienced Agile practitioner who wants to share problems and ideas with a group of like-minded colleagues? If you answered yes then join our group!

The purpose of this meet-up is to focus on developer productivity tools:  a place we can showcase and share ideas to make life easier for us developers...  although SQL / SQL Server is mentioned prominently, this is due to the focus on data, but building complete applications which are based on SQL are also fair game.  The mention of SQL-Hero is not because anyone needs to have a working knowledge of this product or that it will receive prominent focus, but because Joel will inevitably demonstra …

This is a spin-off of the Bay Area Software Quality Group which has stagnated over the past several months. The purpose of this group is to discuss all things regarding software quality engineering. This includes automation, unit testing, exploratory testing, load/performance testing and any other type of testing strategy that comes up. Although this group is centered on test engineers, there should be plenty of valuable data for others within the software development ecosystem.