Lean Bytes Archive

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May 7, 2024 - 11:45am — 12:01pm CT

Using Enterprise Data To Power Your Own AI Assistant

Alec Harrison

Organizations today hold vast amounts of underutilized enterprise data.

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Past Lean Bytes

How to Start Solving For Any Problem

Matt Smith

In working toward product or business goals, we all inevitably encounter complex problems that could be solved in a variety of ways.

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Measuring Team Efficiency & Productivity with DORA Metrics

Tim Gifford

You know your IT teams are making progress in strengthening their engineering and delivery practices, but how can you start to measure this in a more quantifiable way?

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Prioritize Product Discovery for Impact

Jodi Jones

Product teams often find themselves with a lengthy wishlist of ideas and features stemming from stakeholders, executives and others inside and outside the organization.

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Getting Started with Integration Testing with ASP.NET Core and Testcontainers

Patrick Robinson

In this talk, we will learn how to easily get a few meaningful integration tests up and running without running any manual docker commands.

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Extreme Programming 101

Scott Sauber

What do you think of when you hear Extreme Programming (XP)?

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Proto Personas: Getting Closer to Your Users

Barry Closser

One of the most critical aspects of building great products that will be used and enjoyed is knowing who your users are.

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Radical Optionality: Strategies in Uncertainty

Tim Gifford

Organizations today face the challenge of making crucial business decisions in increasingly complex and uncertain environments where traditional deterministic processes just don’t cut it.

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The Importance of Cultural Change in Digital Transformation

Peter Chodakowski

One of the most significant challenges in digital transformation is overcoming resistance to change among employees.

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Applied To Software Engineering

Scott Sauber

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a model for understanding the motivations behind why people make the choices that they do.

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Getting Participation From the Entire Team

Daniel Ward

Many of us have been on teams where the same few people speak every meeting, and likewise, the same few people very rarely ever speak.

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The Subtle Difference Between Logs, Metrics, and Audits

Scott Sauber

Often times we’ll hear someone say “we should log that” but sometimes they mean something more.

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Code Smells

PapaBear

Scrub away the grub.

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Cognitive Biases

Peter Chodakowski

In this Lean BYTES, we’ll take a trip into the world of cognitive biases and deep dive into a few that have potential to impact how we deliver product solutions.

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Golden Rules of Interface Design

Matt Smith

We deliver software to help fix someone’s problems and make their life easier.

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Handling Null Values

Brian Hartin

Brian will briefly talk about how he has used a particular approach to almost ignore the concept of null values.

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Leveling Up Your Digital Transformation

Peter Chodakowski

Many digital transformation efforts focus mainly on IT departments.

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Safely Evolving Legacy Code

Scott Sauber

A new request comes in.

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DEI: Going Beyond the Acronym

DEI is not about the acronym, it’s about creating an environment where all kinds of people regardless of their background or perspective can safely and authentically connect.

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Systems for Modern IT | IT Modernization

Tim Gifford

You know you’re not delivering as effectively as you could.

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Transforming Your Company for the Digital Economy

Brandon Carlson

The workforce is changing and so are your customers.

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Prototyping Tools

Alex McClure

Want to have fewer meetings?

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Coding Standards (.NET/Java)

Tim Gifford

We all know the benefits of coding standards.

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You Might Need Docker If…

Jon Graf

Docker is a tool for containerization, but what does that mean and what is it good for?

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JWT Fundamentals

Scott Sauber

This week’s Lean BYTES will be presented by Scott Sauber on “JWT Fundamentals.

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Test Automation Looks Good On You…But Why?

Brandon Carlson

Many companies question the value of a solid test automation practice.

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