Executive Leadership and Career Management are the responsibilities of each of us in our lifetime. "Leaders are not born" and skills and competencies can be learned and take you from good to great. The group was started to encourage creativity, innovation, and inspiration for professionals and executives who want to make an impact on their lives and on the lives of people in their communities. Workshops and seminars can be provided on a number of topics, can be customized for the group, and are …

Do you get excited about limiting WIP, visualizing workflow, and self-organizing teams? Would you like to meet others like yourself and learn even more about Lean? Then join us for an interdisciplinary look at all things Lean, Kanban, Six Sigma, TPS, or Personal Kanban even. You should come if you : * have heard about Lean and want to know more * are trying to implement Lean thinking at your organization and could use some advice and guidance * know a lot about lean and would lik …

  Welcome to the Washington DC Scrum User Group! This group is for Washington DC area Agile evangelists, thought leaders and enthusiasts that are passionate about all things Agile and Scrum. We are currently in the process of moving from our old user group at groups.google.com/group/dcnova-scrum-user-group to here Meetings are held monthly and are mainly discussions, workshops, or open space type sessions covering various topics about Agile and Scrum. Meetings will usually occur on the 3 …

We are going to transform leadership in our community by developing leaders, adding value to them, and being compensated in alignment with that value. Join us at our events to stretch your leadership and get connected with other growth-oriented leaders!

Interfacing Information Technology Executives and Experts to uncover mutually beneficial business and employment opportunities.

In a shameless attempt to add a few members, the Baltimore Software Book Club has renamed itself. We still talk books, but you don't have to bring one. The original description says it well: A book club for those passionate about writing great software as well as building a business around it. We'll meet up for discussing and sharing books on variety of similar topics such as Software Engineering, Agile Software Project Management, Usability, Software Marketing and so on. Some representative …

Taking the DC tech offline and building relationships, become a resource and support the community!  

… What this group needs: -Business Intelligence Experts (Preferably with experience in Chronos/Sharepoint/Crystal Reporting) -Project Management Specialists -iPhone Developers -Web Developers -CSS/HTML Specialists (Particularly splicing & coding) -.Net Specialists -AJAX Specialists -JAVA Specialists -Javascript -Networking Specialists -DBA Administrators -Business Lawyer So what do I bring to the table you ask? -A Place to Work -A Network of Financier …

Hi! ProductCamp DC is a 100% participant-driven event where professionals interested in building, launching and managing great products gather to learn from one another and share their experiences. If you are in Product Management or Product Marketing, this is the event for you! Whether you are in a large enterprise, a non-profit, government agency or event a start-up, this is the place you want to be to interact with the region's best and brightest on product strategy. Get involved and get acti …

If you are interested in learning or sharing anything about designing, developing and supporting a great web site, service, app or online social network community, this group will not just explore, but we will discuss and possibly build, together.  This includes Javascript, HTML5, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, mobile web support, CakePHP, WordPress and other content management systems.  But it does not stop there.  This group will identify and explore the use of technologies, content, media and social …

… 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!

… These monthly community events provide opportunities to develop more allies for the project and to connect with others interested in similar topics. Express your interest to the co-organizers and followup. WHEN: 12:30PM TO 2:30PM on the third Sundays of each month in 2012. COST: free and open to the public (suggested $2. donation to the nonprofit and for 50/50 program where the winning ticket will receive half of the donations received right after a round of self-introductions at each event. Thi …

… These monthly community events provide opportunities to develop more allies for the project and to connect with others interested in similar topics. Express your interest to the co-organizers and followup.  WHEN: 12:30PM TO 2:30PM on the third Sundays of each month.   Attitude is the first important pre-requisite for success. Are you willing to receive the abundance of the universe? This is a chance to practice the Friendship Archway tradition of exchanging gifts of appreciation and friendship.  …

… Sure, we will share and discuss topics like any other meetup group, but in most cases they will be relevant to projects that members are actually working on.  There will be times to socialize too.   We have over 200 members in the combined DC/N. VA/MD meetup groups and growing. One of the main goals of Just Dev It is to be the gestalt of all the popular business, technology and creative meetup communities, joining a cross section of disciplines and interests together into one group which is grea …

… Sure, we will share and discuss topics like any other meetup group, but in most cases they will be relevant to projects that members are actually working on.  There will be times to socialize too.   We have over 200 members in the combined DC/N. VA/MD meetup groups and growing. One of the main goals of Just Dev It is to be the  gestalt of all the popular business, technology and creative meetup communities, joining a cross section of disciplines and interests together into one group which is gre …

… After that project was completed, then they would repeat the process over, and over again, including assigning dedicated teams to manage the existing creations that are in production. Would’t that be strangely awesome?