Ben Godfrey
Wandering hacker. Serial founder. I ♥ techno.

In this talk, Mary Poppendieck will compare and contrast the openings of Beijing Capital Airport Terminal 3 and Heathrow Terminal 5 and present the lessons they hold for anyone switching on complex systems that absolutely must be on time, and must work well—starting the very first day.

The Agile UX and Lean Startup groups meet! Will it be more like a Michael Jackson or Lionel Richie video? Only one way to find out...
Drinks brought to you by LUXr - The Lean User Experience Residency

The April DevTank will be at StartHub, so just around the corner from MOO, with space for 150 people. As well as a bigger venue, we also have another fantastic line-up of speakers in Paolo Perrotta and Jaan Orvet.

Paolo Perrotta is the author of Metaprogramming Ruby and has more than ten years of experience as a developer and writer. These days,...

Demos and presentations from 6:30 at Skills Matter, 116-120 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7DP. Beers will be at The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton St, London, EC1V 0DX, where we have an area reserved for us from 8 o'clock onwards.
Talks details to be announced shortly. We still have 3 five minute slots available, so if you would like to...

We all have problems and expertise to help each other. Entrepreneurs, designers, analysts, developers - let's bring our practical issues to each other for support. Kicked off by Benjamin Mitchell on "Failure, Error and Learning for the Lean Startup."

Benjamin Mitchell has been studying and applying Lean Thinking as a software...

TechPitch4.5
Sponsored by Bootlaw, Eden Ventures & UKTI

TechPitch4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the tech startups, which have been taking part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months. TechPitch4.5 will be held at TechHub on 10th February 2011, with TechCrunch Europe’s editor...

The February DevTank sees a return the Tech + Biz speaker format, and will be on the 9th February at MOO's shiny new offices. 2011 at DevTank brings the promise of great speakers (starting with Mike Butcher from TechCrunch), and thanks to <a href="http://www.edenventures.co.uk/" target="_blank">Eden...

The London Hacker News meetup is back for our first event of 2011.

Demos and presentations and presentations from 6:30 at Skills Matter, 116-120 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7DP Beers will be at The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton St, London, EC1V 0DX, where we have an area reserved for us from 8 o'clock onwards.

We have the following 5...

Product Tank has a media focus this month and takes place at the White City conference centre, London W12 in the BBC's Media Village. White City is the nearest underground, or Wood Lane and Shepherds Bush are a short walk away.Anthony Sullivan, Product Manager BBC News will be talking about the recent redesign and managing the roadmap of this...

The guys from Seatwave have kindly agreed to present a case study on their performance improvement project for www.seatwave.com.

Perry & Ged have some great "real world" information on what worked for them from a technical perspective and how they managed the project overall.

This should be an excellent start to our first...

Are you using some new technology others would be interested in?

Have you done something awesome that people could learn from?

Do you want to discuss an approach, pattern or technology and see what others think?

Or perhaps discuss a design challenge you're facing?

Come along to the Software Craftsmanship round table. This is a friendly,...

guardian.co.uk is largely a Java development shop. We implemented our new Content API (http://content.guardianapis.com) as our first project in Scala, starting at the beginning of 2010. Graham Tackley will talk about how we managed the transition and how we learnt scala as a team, with lots of practical examples and code samples.

Rummble is organizing its inaugural London event: The Official Rummble Pub Crawl to coincide with the last day of the Internet Week Europe (http://www.internetweekeurope.com) , on London 12 November 2010.

The Rummble team will gather at 6pm at The Dog & Duck (http://rmb.ly/ZAIV). Most importantly, the first handful of people who Rummble...