This group is intended for people interested in learning about the agile and scrum methodology through discussions, expert presentations and practical scrum activities. We want to bring you a great environment to network with like minded individuals at the same time as learning and contributing new ideas around the agile space. Attendees are encouraged to share their experiences and lessons learned with working in the scrum environment. Brand new to Scrum? No worries! All we ask is that you have …

Join the Los Angeles community of Lean Launchpad-ers! While we wait to take Steve Blank's free online "Lean Launchpad" Class offered via Stanford, sign up for the free Tech Entrepreneurship Class also offered for free online from Stanford. The professor, Chuck Eesley takes a research approach to startups, noting what does and does not work. It's a great class. Sign up at venture-lab.org. Sign up by May 1st to get put into a group by the course's assistants. Check out the introductory videos at: …

Thanks to all who showed interest in this Meetup group. This is a project based Meetup group for people who want to start and build their own business online. The organizers provide the formula for this and provide guidance to the Meetup members from start to the point where members start receiving income.    We have received our maximum number of applicants and are not accepting anymore to keep the project manageable and productive for our current members.   If you are interested in future proj …

[UPDATE] Active Startup is under new leadership and will be rolling out an all new series of meetups for this community. If you want to participate in the new administration please contact the organizer. See you soon!   Active-Startup is a Los Angeles based community for aspiring entrepreneurs. The goal is to bring together like-minded individuals to conquer some of the more basic challenges faced when starting a company like finding group workspace and building teams. The focus is web …

The goal for Blacks In Technology Los Angeles (BIT-LA) is to create a vibrant community of like-minded African American technology professionals, innovators and enthusiasts who are working with or interested in Web-based and related technologies. We’re talking the whole techie gamut from bloggers, digital media specialists, community managers and web masters to web designers, social media strategists, PHP developers, online marketing experts, recruiters, software developers and project managers. …

This group was started to create a forum for experienced and aspiring web/mobile software entrepreneurs: product strategists, CTOs, hackers, CEOs, COOs, designers, developers/engineers, Scrum coaches, information architects, project managers. We will meet frequently to dscuss the rapidly changing web/mobile consumer software space:  - New technologies - New apps! - Cutting-edge hardware releases - Startup process and incubation - Open systems - Development process efficiency/theory - Idea …

More and more folks in the software, systems, engineering, and business communities have gotten hooked on the two great-tasting philosophies of agile and lean. They are using these techniques to build awesome technology companies.  This group has events that will help members connect and grow their tech companies using these philosophies.

SCQAA San Fernando Valley enables members to share quality practices, principles, concepts, ideas, and methods through meetings, seminars, workshops and networking events. All IT professionals will enjoy this group and earn PMI PDUs and QAI recertification credit. Join us and help lead the way to better quality software.

You're a graphic designer and you think in concepts, colors, layout, and texture. You're a web programmer and you dream in code. Sometimes we need to find our perfect match ... to work on that next project.

… 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!

This is a face-to-face version of the online LinkedIn group (see http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=1895501). This group is dedicated to all such researchers and analysts who are interested in innovative research methods and analytics, as well as related software tools. It is a forum for researchers, analysts and practitioners to discuss about research methodology, research computing, research applications, research flow management, and research process standardization. It is also a place …

Are you interested in starting your own business on the Internet but you do not know quite where to begin? Or you could use a little bit of support and motivation from others doing the same thing? Then become one of our privileged group members. This is a group for entrepreneurial minded folks who are working on their own businesss making income from the Web. I am working on my own small business blogging and publishing ebooks on the Internet. I have access to some great learning resources. I ha …

… So I'm starting this Meetup Group, our own personal Writer's Club, with the sole purpose of getting together at various times, to individually work on our own Writing Projects. Once we get together we'll decide what else might be helpful- but for now, that's what we'll do: Commit to a time and a place, get coffee or whatever your hearts desire, and write. This is not a class, but merely a facilitation to bring each of us closer to doing what we know we need to do, yet somehow don’t manage enough …

R is an open source software/programming language for data analysis, statistical modeling, visualization, data mining, predictive analytics, statistical computing, exploratory data analysis etc. This group is aimed to bring together practitioners (from industry and academia alike) in order to exchange knowledge and experience in solving data analysis/statistical problems by using R. Besides discussing techniques and solutions in R, emphasis will be put on providing a good understanding of th …

… Strategic tax planning, financial literacy, perfect credit, real estate and investment education for women, investment opportunities, creative wealth strategies; internship, career and sponsorship opportunities ; executive and personal coaching; conversational arabic, french, chinese and spanish groups; intellectual book club; mensa and triple 9 projects, chess club;  swag, gift bags, comps, discounts, freebies and special offers;   Retreats. Women's retreats, couples retreats, family retreats, …

… This keeps our risk to a minimum and allows us to spread our money across multiple projects. It also forces us to solve problems creatively and learn new skills instead of hiring out. These ideas come from the Gangster Manifesto, which is a part of our podcast at GangsterProfit.com. So, back to the meetup. We want people who can add to the conversation, not subtract from it. Mainly, this means we want to fill our meetup with people who know what they're talking about. (It also means you should …