About us
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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Agile Austin Book Club: Nexus (1)
·OnlineOnlineWe're reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.
We plan to read and discuss through chapter 4 at our meeting October 1st, and continue our discussion October 15th and into November. (This one is long, we'll take our time to wring out all the value.) We're agile, we 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.)
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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Agile Austin Leader SIG - Beyond the AI Mandate: Building a Culture of Ownership
·OnlineOnlineBeyond the AI Mandate: Building a Culture of Ownership
Everyone is racing to answer one question: how do we use AI? Far fewer are asking what actually determines the return on that effort. The answer is culture. Get the tools right but ignore the culture around them, and you won't achieve the impact you're after.For most organizations, AI is arriving the same way agile once did. A decision from the top. A tool everyone is told to use. A mandate pushed down without ever asking the people doing the work what they need or what they fear. The how-to gets all the attention, and the culture that makes it actually stick gets skipped.
This interview-style session digs into what leaders miss when they treat AI as a rollout instead of a shift in how people work. We will look at the fears that quietly block adoption, why top-down mandates stall, and how leaders build the guardrails and ownership that turn AI anxiety into genuine curiosity. Drawn from a live session delivered to working leaders, where a simple set of questions exposed just how unprepared most teams really are.
You will leave with three questions (call to action) that you can put to your own team immediately.
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Guest Bio:
Kyle Buerger helps leaders build cultures of ownership where teams take initiative, embrace accountability, and navigate change without losing their best people. Through his firm, KB Breakthrough Consulting, he works with leaders across manufacturing and professional services on the culture and leadership side of growth, from executive coaching to team development to strategic consulting. His work focuses on the human systems that determine whether change actually takes hold, not just the tools or the mandate behind it. He also teaches in the Lubar College of Business at UW-Milwaukee.17 attendeesAgile Austin Book Club: Nexus (2)
·OnlineOnlineWe're reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.
We plan to read and discuss through chapter 4 at our meeting October 1st, and continue our discussion October 15th and into November. (This one is long, we'll take our time to wring out all the value.) We're agile, we 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.)
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 .
——
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."
---1 attendeeAgile Austin Book Club: Nexus (3)
·OnlineOnlineWe're reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.
We plan to read and discuss through chapter 4 at our meeting October 1st, and continue our discussion October 15th and November 5th (and possibly 19th. This one is long, we'll take our time to wring out all the value.) We're agile, we 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.)
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 .
——
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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Past events
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