Inaugural Palo Alto Lean Coffee

The meeting is a Lean Coffee (http://leancoffee.org/), and it is scheduled early in the day to minimize interference with your work. You don't have to prepare anything. You come as you are, and I will provide Post-It notes for us to set an agenda when we start. Then we will discuss all the items agreed on, each participant contributing on the fly from his or her experience.

It's at the Palo Alto Cafe (http://www.yelp.com/biz/palo-alto-cafe-palo-alto), and we can each enjoy coffee, bagels, muffins, or croissant-egg scrambles while letting others talk.

I started this group four years ago, but was not quite sure what kind of meeting might be attractive to members, until David Veech (http://www.compression.org/aboutci/board-of-directors/david-veech/) last week suggested I start a Lean Coffee in Palo Alto. It seems like an attractive format, and I hope you find it useful.