What do we do? Who are we?
Skills Matter offers Europe's largest selection of training and events on Open Source technologies and Agile Software Development. Our values are based on supporting the Open Source & Agile community by hosting free events, providing valuable skills through the delivery of courses, and by organising inclusive, affordable conferences on emerging technologies and innovative ideas in our industry.

Our community events are well known to be truly cutting edge and are really well attended. So much so we recently moved to a larger building to accomodate the ever growing audiences. Attracting substantial audiences of passionate developers and architects, these events provide a true platform for new innovators to create awareness about their ideas and technologies encourage discussion and get valuable feedback. We often recognise what's going to make a difference very early on, and are able to do this through our deep understanding of enterprise technologies and through our close engagement with the developer community - we love to hear new ideas and we listen.

All our courses and events are presented by leading industry experts, who are active contributors to the Open Source and Agile communities and popular international speakers. Most of the experts we work with are creators of various technologies and ideas or active contributors to open source projects. Their unrivalled expertise and hands-on development experience has proven invaluable to our customers.

Our training curriculum covers courses on:

• Enterprise Java technologies, such as Spring, Groovy, Grails and more
• Open Source .NET technologies, such as Nhibernate, Castle Web, Spring.NET and more
• Agile & Lean ideas, such as Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Agile Project Management and more
• Agile Testing and BDD, such as TDD, Acceptance Testing, Behaviour Driven Development
• Architecture & Design, such as Domain Driven Design and best architecture practices
• Cloud & Grid technologies, such as Amazon WS, Amazon EC2, Ubuntu Cloud and more
• Web and RIA, such as Flex on Java, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Ajax and more
• OS & Server, such as Ubuntu Certified Professional, Android and more.

We also organise many free events related to the above topics and publish webcasts of most events on our website.

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