Ideas & Insights

Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award goes to exceptional community leaders for their technical expertise, leadership, speaking experience, online influence, and commitment to solving real world problems. It is a selective group: fewer than 500 recipients are based in the United States. This year, four members of the Lean TECHniques team renewed their MVP status.

As AI makes outputs and artifacts easier to generate, the focal point for market differentiation must shift to the processes defining the outcome: determining which problems to solve, which users to serve, and which ideas are actually worth building.

Getting the gains AI promises takes a codebase that can keep up with the agents. We built the Agent-Ready Assessment to show teams exactly where theirs stands — and what to fix first.

GitHub Copilot’s flat seat price is now a variable cost that moves with how your team uses it. A practical look at what changed and the guardrails leaders and developers should put up early.

We’re excited to share that Lean TECHniques has earned two Microsoft Solutions Partner designations: Data & AI (Azure) and Digital & App Innovation (Azure) – giving our clients a stronger path forward on Azure, including access to Microsoft funding for pilots and proofs of concept, direct technical support from Microsoft engineers, and other Microsoft resources.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of a Data & Analytics practice here at Lean TECHniques – expanding our ability to help organizations build modern, governed data environments that power analytics and AI initiatives.

Lean TECHniques was recognized as the IT Service Provider Technology Company of the Year at the 2025 Prometheus Awards. We’re grateful for the honor — and even more grateful for the clients, partners, and teams who are at the heart of this recognition.

Agentic software development promises speed, but often leads to scattered results. The RPI Strategy (Research → Plan → Implement) offers a disciplined way to work with AI tools, keeping them aligned to your intent and reducing wasteful outputs. It’s a simple yet powerful framework that makes AI an asset, not a liability, in your workflow.

Three Lean TECHniques consultants – Scott Sauber, Alec Harrison, and Daniel Ward – have been renewed as Microsoft MVPs. This recognition gives our teams direct access to the engineers and product teams shaping the tools our clients rely on, a channel to provide feedback that influences those tools, and deeper insight to help clients navigate modern technology challenges.

Lean TECHniques was proud to once again support Tech Journey during its annual Tech Camp last week – a hands-on summer program that helps underrepresented and underserved students explore careers in technology.