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You need to get things done, but you're too busy putting out fires and building up technical debt in the process. Sick of the status quo? Give us a call.

06/17/2026

How ready is your codebase for agents? 🤖

It's a question we've been helping teams understand and improve as they adopt agentic-first practices in their SDLC. Through our work, we've seen the same factors continually predict what kind of gains teams can actually get.

So we built the Agent-Ready Assessment. It's a quick diagnostic that scans your repos, scores their readiness, and shares what to fix.

If your teams are using agentic CLI tools, or plan to soon, consider reaching out to see where you stand.

Learn more here: https://hubs.li/Q04lL6Tc0

06/15/2026

We're hearing similar things from engineering leaders right now. Teams have AI tools in their hands, but they're still working out how to get the gains they're after.

Join Tim Gifford and Scott Sauber next week as they share what's been working within client teams to drive real impact as they build toward agentic-first.

🗓 Tuesday, June 23 | 11:00 am central

Register to join:
https://hubs.li/Q04lrC7H0

06/09/2026

GitHub moved Copilot to usage-based billing June 1st. Now you pay for the tokens your team actually uses meaning Copilot went from a flat subscription to a utility, closer to your cloud bill than a software seat.

Staff Engineer Jacob Reed breaks down what changed and the guardrails leaders and developers should put in place for responsible usage.

Read it here 👇
https://hubs.li/Q04kLN9-0

06/05/2026

Most teams now have AI in their developers' hands. Far fewer are seeing real gains in throughput and quality, and fewer still have made those gains scale.

Join Lean TECHniques’ Chief Innovation Officer, Tim Gifford, and Director of Engineering, Scott Sauber, as they walk through what agentic-first delivery looks like in practice with agents taking on the bulk of the work across the SDLC and how teams turn it into gains that scale – done safely and responsibly, without losing control of what ships.

They'll cover:
→ What changes in how teams deliver software and what stays the same
→ How to measure whether it's working and what to baseline before you start
→ How to take what works on one team and scale it across the org
→ Key considerations for security, governance, and cost
→ How to get it off the ground and make it stick in your own organization

🗓 Tuesday, June 23 | 11:00 am central

Register to join 👇

https://hubs.li/Q04kj6SK0

06/01/2026

Join Tim Gifford tomorrow for a micro-webinar on where agents belong in an engineering organization.

What kinds of work should agents fully own and where do they need guardrails? Where do agents belong as a second opinion... or not at all?

Dive into this all with Tim tomorrow during Lean BYTES.

Register to join us 👇

https://hubs.li/Q04jC46R0

05/26/2026

Most engineering organizations have rolled out a coding assistant, but aren't seeing the gains they expected.

Join us on Tuesday, June 2 for our next Lean BYTES where Lean TECHniques' Chief Innovation Officer, Tim Gifford, will walk through the Human Judgement Map — a framework he's been using with engineering leaders to sort work by risk and judgement on the path toward an agentic organization.

You’ll see which kinds of work agents should fully own, where they need guardrails, where they belong as a second opinion, and where they don’t belong at all.

Register to join us: https://hubs.li/Q04hWztl0

05/15/2026

We're looking to add an Embedded Engineer to the Lean TECHniques team to help support our clients. If you're someone who has 5+ years of C++ and Qt experience, we'd love to chat.

Learn more and apply below! 👇

https://hubs.li/Q04gNQvR0

05/12/2026

Lean TECHniques' Director of Engineering, Scott Sauber, is in London this week for the 2026 SDD (Software Design & Development) Conference, meeting up with software practitioners from around the world.

Scott will be giving three talks during the conference:
• 10 Things I Do On Every .NET App
• 10 Things Every .NET Developer Should Know About Azure
• Test Driven Development with Blazor

If you're at SDD this week, be sure to find him between sessions!

https://hubs.li/Q04gd0qg0

04/30/2026

Join us for food, drinks and entertainment at our quarterly Friends of LT Happy Hour and connect with others in the Iowa business and tech community! 🎉

We'll have live music featuring Patricia Holly and food from the Big Red Food Truck. Swing by any time between 4:00 and 7:00 pm. Hope to see you there!

📆 Thursday, May 14
⏰ 4:00 - 7:00 pm
📍Lean TECHniques HQ | 9131 Northpark Drive, Johnston

04/28/2026

Senior Software Engineer, Michael Clancy, will be speaking at the Des Moines AWS User Group tomorrow night – hosted at the Lean TECHniques office.

Mike's talk, Parallel Processing: Scaling Political Opinion Analysis with Serverless AWS, will walk through how Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with the Data API, and Amazon Bedrock can be integrated to create a high-concurrency data enrichment pipeline.

📆 Wednesday, April 29 | 5:30-7:00 pm

https://hubs.li/Q04dK1hb0

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