Local Groups

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Local Groups

These may be Scrum groups, but usually they are general Agile groups.

Please list your group below.

Please also see these pages: http://agilealliance.org/show/1641 and

http://www.apln.org/localchapters.html

Name	Location	Contact	Website	Comments
Boston Agile Bazaar	Boston	Ken Schwaber	http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AgileBazaar/
Agile-Carolinas	NC/SC (Charlotte)	Joe Little	http://agile-carolinas.pbwiki.com	If you are in the area, welcome! This group is not exclusively for Scrum, but Scrum people are well-represented.
AgileHarrisburg	Harrisburg, PA	Stacia Broderick	not setup yet	If you are in the Central PA area, contact me to get together!
AgilePhilly	Philadelphia, PA	Agile Philly Mailing List	http://wiki.agilephilly.com	We meet every First Tue of the month in Philly's Western Suburbs and other locations
BayAPLN	San Francisco Bay Area	David Chilcott	http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/BayAPLN/ http://bayapln.org	San Francisco Bay Area Agile Project Leadership Network Local Chapter. The Bay Area Agile Project Leadership Network (BayAPLN) was founded in 2006 to support a community of practice in the greater San Francisco Bay Area to discuss, develop and promote techniques for the management of Agile Projects and Agile Organizations. We provide a forum for sharing practical experiences and advice. We also explore and develop Agile techniques, understanding and practices at the project, department, organization and enterprise levels.
OTUG Agile Experience Group	Twin Cities, Minnesota	Pam Rostal or Kyle Larson	http://otug.org	3rd Tuesday every month at U of St. Thomas. Open Space format with at least one session dedicated to Scrum. OTUG is an umbrella user group spanning languages, methods, tools and technologies for the software development community in the Minneapolis - St. Paul area.
Swiss CSM Group	Switzerland	Joseph Pelrine or Jiri Lundak	http://scrumaufdeutsch.pbwiki.com/	If you are in the area, welcome! Meetings are usually announced through the German speaking Scrum mailing list at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/deutschescrum/
Ottawa Agile	Ottawa, ON, Canada	Mark Levison	no website yet	This group will get started sometime in May after my newborn sleeps through the night. We will welcome any breed of Agilist - but I expect the focus will be Scrum/Lean efforts.
Agile Halifax	Halifax, NS, Canada	Ryan Cooper	http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-halifax/	We're interested in all things agile, including Scrum. Meetings are scheduled on the yahoo group.
Pittsburgh Coding Dojo	Pittsburgh, PA	Greg Akins	http://pghcodingdojo.org	Coding Dojo, and Iteration "0". Join our mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/pghcodingdojo
Agile Iowa	Des Moines, IA	Kent McDonald	http://www.agileiowa.org/	An agile group founded September 2005.
Agile Maryland	Baltimore/Washington area	George Dinwiddie or Jeff Waltzer	http://agilemaryland.org/	An agile group founded in 2002 (I think). There's a MarylandXP Yahoogroup associated with this, also.
Agile Hyderabad	Hyderabad, India	Sarath Chandra K		An agile group founded in 2003. We meet on the 3rd week of every month to discuss Scurm, Agile, TDD and other related topics
APLN Maryland	Baltimore/Columbia	Linda Cook or Frank Varisco or George Dinwiddie	http://apln.agilemaryland.org or find us under Local Chapters at http://www.apln.org	Newly formed APLN local chapter. Meetings will alternate between Hunt Valley and Columbia. First meeting 3/20/07, receptions starts at 6PM. No charge, refreshments provided. Meetings will likely feature a speaker or panel discussion. All persons interested in things Agile/Scrum/LEAN/APLN are welcome. Email the group at aplnmd@agilemaryland.org for more info or check out the website.
XP User Group Duesseldorf	Duesseldorf, Germany	XPUGD Mailing List	http://www.xpugd.de	User group for XP, Scrum and Agile. Founded in February 2007.
Agile Ukraine	Ukraine, Europe	Alexey Krivitsky	http://www.agileukraine.org/	An agile user group (mainly on XP and Scrum). Founded in Jan 2007. We have a discussion group and support a Ukrainian Scrum portal.
Italian Scrum User Group	Italy	http://groups.google.com/group/it-scrum-user-group	http://groups.google.com/group/it-scrum-user-group	If you're in Italy, please join.
Agile in Belgium	Belgium	Jurgen De Smet	http://agile-be.collectivex.com/	(LinkedIn) User Group operating in cooperation with XP.be initiative in order to spread the word by means of group meetings, forums, mail list postings... Founded in May 2008, having a growing number of Members the one more familiar with lean, agile, scrum, xp... than the other. First group meeting was done in June 2008, see artifacts and pictures
Agile Holland	The Netherlands	Marc Evers, Michael Franken, Olav Maassen & Laurens Bonnema	http://agileholland.com	User group for anyone interested in agile development (Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban, ...) in The Netherlands. Founded in June 2008; we currently have almost 200 members.