What we’re about
Welcome to Agile Austin! Keeping Austin Agile, One User Story at a Time.
Agile Austin is the largest group of Agile professionals in the central Texas Area. As a 501c(6) non-profit, we provide and promote gatherings of like-minded individuals in the Austin Area.
Agile Austin’s mission is to connect people and foster professional growth through collaborative events that educate our community on uncovering better ways to deliver value through Agile values, principles, and practices.
Come connect with us, share and collaborate together, and grow through learning from others.
Website -- www.agileaustin.org
YouTube channel -- https://www.youtube.com/@agileaustin1933
Upcoming events
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•OnlineAgile Austin Book Club: AI 2041, session 4
OnlineWe're reading AI 2041: Ten Visions for our Future, by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan. We anticipate concluding our discussion October 16th, but we're agile, we'll take more (or less) time as appropriate.
(The Zoom link is visible right after you register. The link to the Miro discussion board will be posted in the Zoom chat once the meeting is underway.)
NOTE TO REGULARS: the Zoom link is new.
Do you have a book to recommend? Please submit this form, so our program committee can consider it.
if you'd like to be on the program (book selection) committee, please contact david.wight@agileaustin.org .
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Remote Process
Our process is in flux -- we're experimenting with new moderation and recording techniques, so please be on time and please be patient. And expect a call for participation -- we want this to be your book club.
Discussion Notes
for this and all our books may be found here. Notes are open to comment by anyone (please do!) and you'll also find how to get REIMBURSEMENT for books and the READING LIST for possible future books. (Discussion notes may or may not be taken in future -- we're experimenting to see what's valuable.)
About Book Club
We meet most months the 1st and 3rd Thursdays, so you can put that in your calendar. When and if we resume physical meetings we'll feed you, and if you participate in most of the sessions, we'll even reimburse you for the book, so save that receipt.
We have not recorded Book Club sessions in the past, but that could change:
Recording Disclosure
"AgileAustin has the right to record any hosted event which includes, but is not limited to, Special Interest Groups (SIGs), Monthly Meetings, Conferences, and special events. By registering for, or attending an Agile Austin hosted event, you are giving AgileAustin consent to record and post recorded content containing your image, voice and name at a minimum, online. For remote events, you have the option to turn off your camera, mute your microphone and hide your name."
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•OnlineSense-Making is the New Change Management
OnlineWhen you separate the signal from the noise, it’s obvious that having the ability to separate the signal from the noise is the only thing that matters when it comes to change. We live in a noisy, quick-fix, instant gratification world and when change isn’t happening the way we think it should be happening we want the next quick fix even though deep-down we know it won’t work.
In this session we’ll explore the Six Big Ideas of Adaptive Organizations which may or may not help you help your organizations understand what’s really going on so you can make a more conscious choice about how to move change forward. Perhaps I shouldn’t say ‘may or may not’ and fill you with the same BS you can find all over LinkedIn. But I won’t do that. Meaningful change is hard and the last thing we all need is another bag of magic beans.
Speaker: Jason Little
Jason began his career as a web developer when Cold Fusion roamed the earth. He began helping organizations adopt agile practices in the mid-2000s and has spent the greater part of his career modernizing change management with lean, lean startup and agile thinking.
Jason is a two-time Amazon #1 best selling author for From Skeptic to Strategist: Embracing AI in Change Management (January 2024) and The Six Big Ideas of Adaptive Organizations (May 2024). He founded Lean Change Inc in 2009 and released the first edition of Lean Change Management in 2012. Since then, he’s traveled to over 11 countries in search of what separates organizations that are good at change, from those that struggle with it.
He is also the CTO for Spero Careers Canada, a company dedicated to solving the autism employment crisis. In his spare time he’s a musician, songwriter and producer under the name Jason Ross.
http://www.agilecoach.ca/about/17 attendees
Past events
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