Welcome to the Washington DC Software Craftsmanship User Group! This group is for software developers in the Washington DC area that care about the quality of their work and want to practice and improve their programming skills, share what they know and learn new things from others.     This is a hands-on coding user group with no presentations. Each meeting will be a dojo where we will go through a challenging software craftsmanship exercise that focuses on clean code, test-driven development, …

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 …

DC UL Backpacking Guiding Philosophy: To backpack the mid-Atlantic, focused on weekend trips and the occasional longer outing, with the idea to travel as many miles in a given day as possible, and to have a fulfilling backcountry experience.  While we do not (for the most part) insist on an extreme pace, we do strive to move far and to stay in constant motion.  In the summer, with ample daylight, this will likely result in 15, 20 and even 25 mile days.  In the winter, this might be limited to 10 …