Startup Product, a movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective. Startup Product welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence. Everyone is encouraged to contribute their point of view, w …

This is a group for Project Managers interested in Product development or in a career change: from Project to Product Manager. I started this group after making the change myself and realizing that there were a lot of others like me trying to do the same. So, this group is for everyone who needs help to make the move as well as learn more about how to manage product develoment. Project managers, Product managers, start-up entrepreneurs and Data analysts crowd is expected.

A community of aspiring and existing Product Managers. Want to be a Product Manager? This group is for people interested in entering or learning more about Product Management and for existing Product Managers who wish to be mentors and share their experiences. We will bring in product experts to share their knowledge, help build product skills, have networking opportunities and also work on projects together. These projects can be personal or volunteer challenges posed by non-profits with a goal …

This is a community of mobile product managers, UX researchers, developers, and designers who meet to share our experiences with the process, challenges, and joys (!) of developing mobile products (apps and mobile web too!) There are lots of awesome Meetup.com groups that focus on the dev/tech side of building for mobile. The emphasis of this group is on research, requirements gathering, definition, UX, product management, and design of mobile apps and sites. Come on over, we'll put on a fresh p …

There are lots of developer skill building talks/events etc but not enough meetups for Product Managers to get together and share lessons learned, tools, processes, tips/tricks etc. That is what this group is for. A way for tech/web/startup Product Managers to get together and hang out with other PMs, to learn, share, and network.

We’re bringing everyone on the team together to talk about what makes products great. Each month, we will pick a key product development topic and feature a speaker who’s kicked ass at that topic to share their story. Join us if you love disruptive products - there is plenty of room for group discussion and learning!

The Pivotal Tracker User Groups are a forum for product managers, project managers, entrepreneurs, designers and developers to share techniques and discuss the real day-to-day issues surrounding software project management. We’ll talk about upcoming Tracker features and look at third-party integrations. We'll discuss story estimation techniques and talk about what makes a good story. We’ll share our experience with agile planning, discuss patterns and anti-patterns of story management and accept …

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers in San Francisco and the Valley to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Design, Development and Management, as well as Lean, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include short talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, design and development as well as plenty of time for networking and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to com …

Interested in getting more involved in the entrepreneurial scene in SF but not sure where to start? This group provides an authoritative but friendly firsthand look at the current Bay Area landscape. From impromptu drinks with mentors and hiring managers to both speaker-centric and straight-up social events at cool offices around SOMA, we'll give you an insider's introduction to startup culture in the area code where it all started.

A meetup consisting of casual evening talks and demos on the challenges and solutions of building and maintaining Wikipedia and associated sites (Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, …) at the scale of a top five Internet site with over half a billion monthly uniques. This will be followed by Q&A and other informal lively discussion before and after. This consists of a range of topics such as the MediaWiki software (one of the largest open source web projects), website architecture and inf …

The goal of the SF Community Manger's crew is to meet and trade ideas. Community Management combines leadership, marketing, social media, customer service, and quite a few other skills as well.  One great way to keep up with all these areas of growth is to meet and exchange ideas, stories, lessons, etc. Given the dynamic and diverse companies, charities, and groups in our region, the chance to learn from people pursuing unique avenues is pretty darn exciting. On the simplest level, this group ca …

Beyond The Startup World This is a group for Community & Developer Relations Managers/Advocates/Specialists who have fast growing, diverse, and ever-changing communities that need keeping up with! Join us to learn best practices, share advice, meet cool people, and hear real-world experiences (rather than technical jargon) in a fun and relaxed environment. This group is not exclusive and welcomes anyone willing to share what they know and ready to learn.

Get together to share your experiences and advice as a UX designer, pick up tips, and keep current on good UX design.

This group is focused on bring together Agile enthusiasts and people practicing this framework. It is a great way to network with people working with Agile. Also, it is a platform to help people exchange ideas and common practices.

For people interested in the development of software that supports the needs of different languages and cultures and enables worldwide communication.

User Engagement Pros will be a supportive Meetup for Saas/Cloud/UX/Customer Support people who are looking to share and learn the best practices in engaging users, reducing customer support costs, limiting churn, and increasing trial to paid users. We will have top notch speakers, demos, and always have time for networking and schmoozing. Sign up and stay tuned for upcoming events coming soon!

The purpose of this group is marry the worlds of technology and residential real estate into one. Oftentimes, real estate professionals and customers are unaware of which new technologies exist to make their lives easier.  On the flip side, there are lots of technology gurus who want to learn more about real estate and how it works.  Our goal is to bring people from both worlds into one group so that everyone can learn from each other about something new. This group is perfect for real estate ag …

Product managers from the Photoshop and Lightroom teams may be coming to your town. Stay tuned for announcements regarding exclusive photowalks that celebrate the launches of Photoshop Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5.

What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more, more quickly. Lean UX is about getting more done better for the same investment. Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing your design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing research, testing your hypotheses, and building better hypotheses quickly, based on more information, based on reality. Read 10 Principles for Lean UX on Luxr The intersection between Lean Thinking, Agile Development and UX is a …

Sick of setting goals but not meeting them? .. of having aspirations and desires but not the balls or perseverance to reach them without giving up or getting distracted? .. of desiring closeness but sabotaging it or pushing away? "Self Sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen." GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY You will open to more ease and aliveness through: - learning to recognize self sabotaging forces/ voices/ behaviors - gaining tools to manage th …

Updated 01/10/11 Hello wine enthusiasts and thanks for your interest in our group! This particular meetup was originally started by French wine importer and educator Raphael Knapp.  While Raphael is still a member here, he now has a different group called "Return to Terroir," that you may also wish to join.  I originally joined this group to mingle and collaborate with other people in the bay area who appreciate continued education about wine. I did not immediately adjust the summary for SF Wine …

This is a group for anyone interested in applying lean startup thinking inside large organizations. We are entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and corporate innovators who want to test ideas for new products, services, and business models within established companies. Learn how to: - Apply lean startup thinking to the enterprise - Design experiments that align product, business and customer - Conduct internal customer development Whenever possible, we will present actual case studies from large comp …

What is Lean Coffee? Lean Coffee is a structured, agenda-less meeting.Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking.Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. Who should attend? Everyone! From beginners to seasoned Leanists. Why attend? You like good coffee don't you?! ;-) And there are always great topics brought to the table; everything from "lean startup in large organizations" to "collective quality ownership" and "cus …

Mindful Leadership is a meditation group for busy executives and leaders who want to lead a more peaceful, happy, and effective life. Scientific research into mindfulness meditation has shown to help in these areas and it is no coincidence that companies like Google now have mindfulness programs for their employees. Meditation will help you calm your mind on demand and return it to a natural state of happiness, deepen self-awareness in a way that fosters self-confidence, harness empathy and comp …

Are you a solo-consultant or running a consulting firm that provides engineering or design in the San Francisco area? Or are you an entrepreneur who might need to contract or partner with such a business? Join our community of people in the area helping to build products and make ideas into reality. Our meetup welcomes engineers and designers from all disciplines and the businesses that support them such as product-based startups and other firms who write custom software. We'll have regular even …

Meet with a wide variety of new media & video 2.0 producers, creators, writers, bloggers, journalists, technologists, developers, managers, executive, investors, advertisers, small and large businesses, fans and more.

This is the official Ponoko Meetup group - based in San Francisco. Attending our regular meetups is a great way to meet other people who are interested in making extraordinary things, using the latest tools at our disposal. Ask questions from our Ponoko team members and other attendees, check out materials & example products, and learn some invaluable tips for making with Ponoko. If you're not in the Bay Area and would like to host your own Ponoko meetup, you're welcome to schedule your own h …

Anything social sales: from new business models like free trial, freemium, in-app purchases to use of social media for lead generation and sales to social products of the future. Meetup for sales stars, other customer facing personnel and growth hackers to compare notes on what works and what doesn't.