June 11th: Lean and Functional Programming with Bryan Hunter

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June 11th: Lean and Functional Programming with Bryan Hunter

http://www.meetup.com/Nashville-NET-User-Group/events/221935641/

When:
Thursday, June 11th, 2015
5:30 PM

Where:
Vaco
5410 Maryland Way
Suite 110
Brentwood, TN

Companies adopt Lean because it is a proven path to improving delivery times, reducing cost, and improving quality. A company that writes software cannot truly embrace Lean without also embracing functional programming. Why? Lean is about building quality into the process. Lean is a systemic method for reducing waste, overburden, and inconsistency. With OO, many forms of waste, overburden, and inconsistency are unavoidable. A defect early in the process always results in a defect in the product later in the process, and OO itself is a defective process. In this session we will go from the origins of both Lean and FP and see how specific FP concepts (examples in F#, Elixir, Idris) map onto Lean principles. We will also discuss why some companies fail at Lean and FP.

Food should arrive around 5:30 PM and we'll plan on starting the talk at 6pm.

Bryan Hunter is the CTO of Firefly Logic and the founder of Nashville Functional Programmers. He is a Microsoft MVP in F# and a well-known figure in the Erlang community. Bryan has a long obsession with both Lean and functional programming. You can say hi to him on Twitter at @bryan_hunter.