Lean TECHniques

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

04/27/2026

🚲 2026 TECH Trek Bike Ride 🚲

There's still time to register to join us this Friday for the TECH Trek. Two distances to choose from – or meet us at the end for a happy hour. We'd love to see you!

Register at

Join Lean TECHniques on Friday, May 1st for our third annual TECH Trek bike ride — an event for the cycling enthusiasts and casual bar hoppers alike on the Raccoon River Valley Trail.

04/24/2026

Developers today are expected to move faster than ever, but traditional tools can only take you so far. Even with copilots assisting at the surface level, many teams still face bottlenecks in ex*****on, context switching, and scaling output.

So what happens when AI moves beyond assistance and starts acting more like a true collaborator?

In our next Lean BYTES, Alec Harrison, AI Consultant, will explore how agentic systems are reshaping the way development work gets done.

📆 Tuesday, May 5 | 11:45 am | Virtual

Join us: https://hubs.li/Q04dqBTn0

04/23/2026

We're excited to share that we've recently earned two Microsoft Solutions Partner designations in Data & AI (Azure) and Digital & App Innovation (Azure).

We pursued these designations because we believe they give 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.

This work is all in support of helping the organizations we work with transform technology into a competitive advantage.

https://hubs.li/Q04dfvtP0

04/03/2026

Lean TECHniques' CEO, Brandon Carlson, will be speaking at the Iowa Employment Conference next week on how organizations can turn AI experimentation into sustainable ROI.

Brandon will share a simple framework organizations can use to help identify where AI can create meaningful impact across the business – reducing tedious work and freeing team members to focus on higher value activities.

https://hubs.li/Q049zMbB0

04/01/2026

The best part of the Iowa technology community has always been people coming together to connect and learn from each other – what’s working, what’s not, what’s changing.

That’s exactly what the Innovation Track is all about at the Technology Association of Iowa (TAI)'s Iowa Technology Summit, and why we’re thrilled to sponsor it this year.

If you're heading to the conference, consider joining Lean TECHniques Software Consultant, Nate Sepich, for his talk, "AI for Everyone: Insights on the Future of Work from a Top 1% User" – as another opportunity to connect and learn together.

See you at the Summit!

03/30/2026

Microsoft’s recent announcements around Microsoft IQ made a lot of promises – but what does it actually mean for you and your business?

Join Lean TECHniques’ Director of Data & Analytics and Microsoft MVP, Matt Gordon, for our next Lean BYTES on Tuesday, April 14 as he breaks down Microsoft’s recent data and AI announcements and walks through what’s real, what’s hype, and what all of it means for your data and AI initiatives.

Sign up to join us here 👇

https://hubs.li/Q048Y6yh0