… Hosted by Marc McPherson, Department Manager for Natural Stone Flooring and Landscaping at BuildDirect.com (http://builddirect.com) and Peter Kefalas, Project Manager at Ethos Development (http://bellaliving.ca). You can get a feel for what we are all about by vieiwing a video montage from our June 2009 event here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ESMN51m9T8 Follow Marc and Peter on Twitter here: Marc - http://twitter.com/marcmcpherson Peter - http://twitter.com/ethosdev

… Software development is a very young discipline when compared to construction projects. While the main stream PMI based waterfall approaches have their merits, agile and lean methodologies are gaining popularity for good reasons. Even better approaches might be lurking around the corner.   By meeting and discussing interesting topics, participants can improve their practices and potentially influence their companies to adapt better software development processes.   This is not a networking group …

Agile software development means that you provide the client what (s)he doesn’t want in the first 30 days rather than after 180 days. You use the remaining 150 days to build what the client really wants with a “show as you go” strategy following each 30 day iteration. In 2001, Ken Schwaber, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler and Alistair Cockburn amongst others came up with the Agile Manifesto as follows: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through …

… Performance technologists, trainers, facilitators, coaches, human resources managers, instructional designers, consultants, human factors practitioners, project managers, and organizational development consultants are members of ISPI. The ISPI Vancouver Chapter offers the following membership types: Full Member: $120 per year Student Member: $50 per year ISPI International Member: $50 per year Corporate Member: $100 per year (5+ people from the same company) Specific benefits of membership …

The IIBA is an international not-for-profit professional association for Business Analysis professionals with a vision to be the leading world-wide professional association that develops and maintains standards for the practice of business analysis and for the certification of practitioners. For more information on what the IIBA is doing at the International level please visit http://www.theiiba.org The objectives of the Vancouver BC Chapter are to: Advance the role of the Business Analys …

This is a group designed to bring together professionals who work in the residential renovation and construction industry. We'll get together for networking and to discuss new advances in our industry. We're looking to add members who are contractors, builders, architects, designers, trades, suppliers and potential clients.

A meet-up to discuss the Pyramid web application framework and other tools hosted under the Pylons Project, as well as frequently related projects like SQLAlchemy and the Repoze family.

… This group aims to help members find inspiration and think in new directions, bringing together potential collaborators for projects and new ventures. Please also check out our blog at http://hackshackers.com Help us build the future of media!