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March 4, 2025 - 11:45am — 12:01pm CT

Your Data’s A Mess – Now What?
Tim Gifford

Tim Gifford

Data is at the heart of every business, but more often than not, it’s a mess. Scattered. Hard to trust. Slowing everything down. Without a solid foundation, every initiative – from AI to insight generation – gets stuck. How can you assess where you’re at and how to get your data house in order? Join to discuss.

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Software Development in 2045: What The Future Holds
Scott Sauber

Scott Sauber

AI is changing software development faster than anyone expected. New tools are cutting coding time, automating testing, and reshaping workflows. As these tools become even more advanced, the value engineers bring to the table is shifting. What does software development look like in 2045? Join us to discuss.

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Influencing Others Regardless of Title and Position
Zachary Hardin

Zachary Hardin

When your organization aims to drive meaningful impact, it’s not just leaders with titles who shape outcomes—it’s anyone with the right tools to inspire and influence.

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Giving Your Product Team Purpose: Key Questions to Inspire Action
Jared McMurray

Jared McMurray

When your organization sets its sights on outcome-focused goals, it’s essential to ensure you’re measuring the metrics that really matter.

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Learning from Failure: Post-Mortems for More Resilient Teams
Cameron Presley

Cameron Presley

Failures are inevitable, but the way we respond to them can transform our teams into stronger, more resilient groups.

Strategic initiatives frequently fall short of their intended results.

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Confidently Navigate Your Cloud Journey
Rene Rios

Rene Rios

Cloud technology adoption is critical to business success today.

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Thriving in Change: A Playbook for Creating Resilient Teams
Jim Lowery

Jim Lowery

The ability to drive meaningful and lasting change is a critical skill for leaders.

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There’s No Such Thing As Internal Customers: Embracing Product on a Platform Team
Peter Chodakowski

Peter Chodakowski

When working on a platform or site reliability team, it’s easy to view internal teams as your customers.

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Using Enterprise Data To Power Your Own AI Assistant
Alec Harrison

Alec Harrison

Organizations today hold vast amounts of underutilized enterprise data.

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How to Start Solving For Any Problem
Matt Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PapaBear

Scrub away the grub.

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Cognitive Biases
Peter Chodakowski

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

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

Peter Chodakowski

Many digital transformation efforts focus mainly on IT departments.

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Safely Evolving Legacy Code
Scott Sauber

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

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

Brandon Carlson

The workforce is changing and so are your customers.

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Prototyping Tools
Alex McClure

Alex McClure

Want to have fewer meetings?

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Coding Standards (.NET/Java)
Tim Gifford

Tim Gifford

We all know the benefits of coding standards.

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You Might Need Docker If…
Jon Graf

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

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

Brandon Carlson

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

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Lean BYTES is a short, 16-minute (Get it? Clever, right?), presentation designed to provide you with the tools you need to take your teams to the next level in an easily consumable, shareable format. Lean BYTES are held the first Tuesday of each month at 11:45 a.m. Join us! All LeanBytes

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