Event Organization
Nelkinda Software Craft is a very active member of the global software craftspersonship movement. We organize a high number of events ourselves. We also help the community, organizations (public and private) to do events around software development.
Why we do this
At Nelkinda, we believe in a worldwide community of professional software craftspeople. In this community, we exchange our experiences and learn from each other. Contributing to that community is crucial for raising the bar for well-crafted software that steadily adds value for productive partnerships. Based on that belief, we have a track record of helping communities and clients with event and conference organization.
How we Help
- Founding meetup groups
- Getting in touch with the community and local meetup groups
- Sponsorship
- Finding sponsors for meetups
- Organizing meetups
- Finding speakers for meetups
- Finding locations / venues for meetups
- Marketing and promoting meetups…
- …on social media like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Plus and others
- …to local and global communities
- Evolving existing and developing new event formats.
For example, Siddhesh Nikude, co-founder of Nelkinda Software Craft, invented the ScrumRetreat.
Types of Events
The type of events that we have organized, hosted, facilitated, sponsored or otherwise supported so far are:
- Meetup
- Conference
- Coderetreat
- Hour of Code
- Open Space
- Hackathon
- ScrumRetreat
What this is About
We do this so developers, Scrum Masters / XP Coaches and Product Owners / On-site Customers can, depending on the event, learn about or practice:
- New Technologies, Methods, Processes, Markets
- User Story Writing
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Product Backlog Item Prioritization
- INVeST and Definition of Ready
- Acceptance Criteria
- User Story Estimation
- Release Planning
- Sprint Planning
- Pair Programming
- Mob Programming
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
- Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
- SOLID Principles
- Clean Code
- Clean Architecture
- …and so much more!
- …and have a lot of fun!
Track Record
So far, we have supported in various ways:
- Elsevier UK (w/ Equal Experts UK and Equal Experts India):
- OX:AGILE Meetup Group (setup, speakers)
- OX:AGILE Global Day of Coderetreat 2016 (facilitation)
- OX:AGILE Conference 2017 (website, organization, speakers)
- Equal Experts India:
- ExpertTalks Meetup Group (speakers)
- ExpertTalks Conference (speakers)
- Various coderetreats, like Coderetreat 2017-08-19 and Global Day of Coderetreat 2016 (facilitator and host training, facilitation, promotion)
- e-Zest Solutions:
- e-Zest Global Day of Coderetreat 2017 (facilitator and host training, facilitation, promotion)
- Red Panda:
- Codewords Meetup Group, Mumbai (speakers)
- Codewords Meetup Group, Pune (speakers)
- Various coderetreats
- Perennial Systems:
- SimplyTech Meetup Group, Pune (setup, speakers)
- SimplyTech Global Date of Coderetreat 2017 (facilitator and host training, facilitation, promotion)
- SKN Sinhgad Institute Of Technology & Science:
- NSOOSE'16 National Level Seminar on Object Oriented Software Engineering (sponsorship, speakers)
- Deccan Ruby Conference (speakers, promotion)
- PRUG - Pune Ruby Users Group (speakers)
- Global Day of Coderetreat (organization, facilitation, facilitator and host training, sponsorship)
- 2017 supporting and running 5 instances with more than 150 attendees: Nelkinda Pune, Red Panda Pune, e-Zest Pune, Perennial Systems Pune and Equal Experts Lisbon
- 2016 supported and ran 6 instances with more than 100 attendees: Nelkinda Pune, Red Panda Pune, Equal Experts Pune, Red Panda Mumbai, Equal Experts Lisbon, Elsevier Oxford / Kidlington
- 2015
Besides we run our own meetup group and have quite an active Event calendar.