Hi Janelle. Both will remain active for the time being. If it makes sense to transition completely to meetup, then this one will be decommissioned. Best, Scott...
Tonight at Lean Software Austin: Learning and Teaching Lean: Creating a Lean Curriculum at Compass Learning at 6:30pm For this first Lean Software Austin...
This month at Lean Software Austin, Janelle Klein leads a discussion of Mistake-Proofing. When we focus on the tools and the process, on the code and the tests...
This is the second of two back-to-back monthly meetings focusing on Mistake Proofing in software development led by Janelle Klein. Last month, we covered...
In 1983, Lisanne Bainbridge, an industrial psychologist at University College in London, wrote a seminal paper that should give software developers 30 years...
We've been swept up in Agile Development methods that tell us to decrease the time-to-feedback. This advice was given in the late-90's when time-to-feedback...
Key to an understanding of Lean is the principle of Flow. But in software development, most of the activity is largely invisible — our "material"; is an idea,...
On Twitter I found a blog article of an economics professor talking about Valve [1]. The article itself is a bit long-winded, but it's coming from the ...
Sukant, I nominate you to lead a session on Lean Software Austin on this topic! I also second the motion. I would also like to let you know that the motion...
PS: All organizations are self-organizing. It's a matter of "to which extent" they are self-organizing. And because grand undertakings require coordination,...
... I'm happy to facilitate an environment of discussion using GitHub, Valve, Yanis Varoufakis's article, and any other material I can find that's relevant....
... There are stories of domains where applications of Toyota's means at more concrete levels have been detrimental. We've spoken about this often, and I'm...
... I agreed a lot with your response. This last paragraph highlights a problem with figuring out how to manage necessary command-and-control. One noticeable...
"Voting with your feet" is an interesting countermeasure. All techniques are specific countermeasures geared for specific problems in specific contexts. What...
Scott/Sukant:  This is an excellent topic and one that is long overdue for detailed investigation and discussion. I will unfortunately be out-of-town for...
I've updated the LeanSoftwareAustin.org website with our new slogan. For those of you monitoring the list, you might recognize it as a quote from Sukant: "We...
Fellow Members, We are experimenting with technologies that are off the beaten path of traditional enterprise development. As such, we are looking to hire a ...
Hi all:  This is an incredible opportunity to see one of the pioneers of modern computer science talk about an important topic. This will be HIGHLY...
This Month at Lean Software Austin: Self-Determination in Software Development Organizations (Monday, September 17th at 6:30pm at Compass Learning) ...
I posted to the Meetup.com page, but cross-posting here just in case: Circumstance is a strange dance partner. Radio Lab had an extremely thought-provoking...
Hi Sukant and all: Thanks for sharing this, it was an interesting listen. Coincidentally, I've been reading _Leading Lean Software Development_ by Tom and...
I pointed this out on the Meetup.com forum, but the date on the old LSA website (http://leansoftwareaustin.org/) is wrong. I'm pretty sure everyone's under ...
Sorry for the mistake :( The date was wrong only on the Lean Software Austin website. The mailout to the list, the Meetup.com event, and Door64 are all...
Rich Hickey gave a nice key note talk at last year's Strange Loop conference [1]. It wasn't the first or last talk on this subject, but it was what got me ...
For the October meeting, we'll be continuing the unfinished conversation from last month. Organizations like GitHub and Valve empower their employees to make a...
For more than three years, Lean Software Austin has been teaching Lean Software Development and Second Generation Agile Development thinking and techniques....
