http://softwaregr.org West Michigan's premier trade association for software professionals. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:03:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When: Tuesday, January 31st Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St. SE, Grand Rapids, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending. “The cloud” is an area of rapid transformation – major vendors release new functionality every month … what does it all mean? How can you take advantage of it? As a developer, why would [...]]]> http://softwaregr.org/2012/01/25/patrick-foley-a-developers-guide-to-the-ever-changing-cloud/ When: November 29th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St. SE, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending. iOS development has become increasingly popular in the past four years since the introduction of the first iPhone. That popularity has created a vibrant developer community that has introduced a number of great third-party [...]]]> http://softwaregr.org/2011/11/05/justin-dewind-ios-development/ When: October 11th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending Most non-trivial software systems suffer from severe technical and structural debt. This burden acts like an ever increasing tax on every code change or new feature to be added. The cost of change is [...]]]> http://softwaregr.org/2011/10/05/alexander-von-zitzewitz-maintaining-technical-quality-of-software-its-the-architecture-stupid/ When:Tuesday, September 13th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending Lean Startup is new and, it’s sometimes easy to forget, mostly unproven. But it builds on older ideas that have more evidence going for them: Lean Thinking, Agile, user research and many others. These [...]]]> http://softwaregr.org/2011/08/19/moses-hohman-lean-startups-customer-development/ If you were unlucky enough to miss our closing meeting this past June, you missed a great talk! However, there is a silver lining. The talk is available online here.]]> http://softwaregr.org/2011/08/19/video-lightweight-project-tracking-with-burn-up-charts/ When: Tuesday, June 28th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending Carl and Mike will be talking about the use of burn-up charts as a vital element of data-driven project management. Atomic has been using this simple technique for more than five years. Burn-up [...]]]> http://softwaregr.org/2011/06/20/carl-erickson-mike-marsiglia-lightweight-project-tracking-with-burn-up-charts/ When: May 18th, 6pm – 8pm NOTE: This is not on our regular schedule. This event is on Wednesday the 18th. Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, 49506 Please RSVP here if you plan on attending Interested in doing a startup? Thinking about joining one? Just want to know how Silicon Valley works? Former [...]]]> http://softwaregr.org/2011/05/11/william-pietri-10-years-in-startup-land/ When: April 26th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506 Please RSVP here if you plan on attending J.R. Jenks is proud to say that he grew up with the computer industry. He first learned to program as a child when programming meant linking to an HP2000 mainframe [...]]]> http://softwaregr.org/2011/04/04/jr-jenks-using-agile-methods-when-designing-medical-devices/ The Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference is coming soon! Early bird registration ends on March 27th so reserve your slot now. The full program and information is available now on GLSEC.org]]> http://softwaregr.org/2011/03/17/glsec/ Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506 When: March 22nd, 6pm to 8pm Please RSVP here if you plan on attending Walter Bright graduated from Caltech in 1979 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He worked for Boeing for 3 years on the development of the 757 stabilizer trim system. He [...]]]> http://softwaregr.org/2011/03/14/walter-bright-the-d-programming-language/