Leancamp - Session Ideas
Entrepreneurs, designers, managers, developers, innovators – how can they help you? Leancamp is all about learning from people from other disciplines and different perspectives. It’s a rare opportunity to raise your current challenges and ideas, so that others can help you through them and contribute their knowledge.
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Improving project management through lean
Many technology projects fail because the technology gets implemented over existing processes. How do we get organizations to spend time upfront making their processes lean before implementing technology? This could save a whole lot of money down the line!
3 votes -
MVP Technology Decisions for non Technical coFounders
Lean Startup entrepreneurs have to heavily rely on Tech cofounders or out sourced development. When considering the technologies involved to get an MVP deployed, developers are often not lean minded enough. To avoid difficulty getting out of the starting blocks, you should have some grasp of decisions that are being made on your behalf. A brief overview of the issues followed by recruited panel offering their experience of some of the major choices to be made. What's worked well, and what bit them in the ass.
7 votes -
The Principles behind Lean Startup
Too often Lean Startup gets dogma-heavy and very specific - I know that myself, since I often end up using tools for explanation as its easier to do.
I'd like to have a collaborative session on reviewing what the principles are that we can universally agree on. I know Salim and Rob have always been great at this - others are very welcome to give their inputs.
This is meant to be a smaller discussion group or fishbowl, not a presentation.
11 votes -
Viral dynamics
One of the patterns of growth described in The Lean Startup is the "viral engine of growth". This is actually already well studied in other fields, and there are dynamic models to simulate them. The SI model includes Succeptible and Infected individuals and the SIR model extends this with Recovered individuals. Obviously, in the case of a business, Infected = Customer / User!
If there is any interest I can prepare a short walk-through of how dynamic models work, and run through some scenarios of "epidemics".
5 votes -
Intro to UX and UX for Products
This workshop is an introduction to what UX (User Experience) is and what you can do with it. User Experience takes people as a starting point and advocates to make products for people; products that are easy to use and are useful for the people buying and using it. Whenever we interact with products, be it complicated software or a simple teaspoon, we have a user experience with that product. This workshop will dive into the world of UX and leave you with a basic understanding of how important it is to understand not only products, but also the user…
6 votes -
Pitching your app or startup to the media
A good pitch to the media can be the difference between getting coverage and being completely ignored. How should you approach journalists and what should you say? More importantly, what should you definitely NOT say? Martin Bryant, Editor-in-Chief at The Next Web, explains.
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Breaking Silos in Larger Organizations
Larger organizations typically try to implement lean piecemeal, with different silos all trying to rapidly iterate. However, as each silo relies on inputs and outputs from other teams, it quickly becomes apparent that piecemeal lean is waterfall in disguise.
What are some of the ways that corporations can break out of silos? What works? What doesn't?
This will be a roundtable discussion from practitioners in larger corporations implementing lean on a tactical level.
8 votes -
Fast learning, slow decisions
With all our customer talkin' and experimentin' we're fast at learning, so much faster than startups from the 90s! But wait - in spite of all that, we still don't adapt that much faster, often because we're still slow at decisions. I'd like us to share our stories of slow decisions, why they were slow and what we can do about them.
9 votes -
Remote custdev
When you're working in a different place than your customers, how can you make Customer Development practical? How do you meet customers? How do you move faster than setting up interview meetings?
7 votes -
Intro to UX and UX for Products
This workshop is an introduction to what UX (User Experience) is and what you can do with it. User Experience takes people as a starting point and advocates to make products for people; products that are easy to use and are useful for the people buying and using it. Whenever we interact with products, be it complicated software or a simple teaspoon, we have a user experience with that product. This workshop will dive into the world of UX and leave you with a basic understanding of how important it is to understand not only products, but also the user…
7 votes -
Introduction to Lean Startup
I know we have people coming that aren't practitioners.
This session would go over the basics. Why this approach. Build-Measure-Learn. Business Model Canvas. Customer Development. MVP. What should we measure. Learn and Pivot.2 votes -
Tools for lean startup (verifyapp, Mixpanel, Appmachine, etc)
There are many tools and services that can expedite the delivery of an mvc ( design/build/measure). This is an opportunity to identify and share those delivering most value.
4 votes -
Where have all the clients gone? a lead open discussion on what works and how.
Five minutes intro talk on ideas which have been known to work, to get started and keep going in client search. Given by me, to get the creative juices flowing. Followed by why and how do they work, as a mind challenge to start thinking of original creative and lean ways to build a following of customers, who support the business.ten minutes wrap up on whats been the discoveries and how can the ideas be applied?
3 votes -
Q & A panel
What do you want to discuss. Customer Development, Metrics, MVPs, Innovation Accounting, BMC?
Your choice
1 vote -
Lean Viral Video Marketing
Amman is the founder of roundwaves.com which he started with £1k of his student loan. A crazy concept of a business idea based on taking artists from developing countries and creating music with a solution. Such as music to help people sleep, relax, concentrate and even music for dogs.
Now with 2.5 million hits a month and revenue from YouTube, itunes and partnerships. Featured in the WSJ, The Times and Huffington Post.
Amman will share how his journey and experiences on how he built a lean viral business model.
4 votes -
Real-time, rolling cohort analysis
Andy Young once showed me a rolling cohort analysis he was using at Group Spaces. There were a few advantages because they were real-time and also linked to acquisition signals. Andy, would be great for you to do a show and tell!
7 votes -
How to implement lean on a daily basis. (Which tools & processes)
There are a lot of tools available and a lot is written about the process of Lean Startup, but only Ash Maurya really proposes a tool to implement it on a daily basis, namely the Lean Stack. I would like to have a discussion how teams implement & internalize lean on a daily basis.
Which tools (BMG canvas vs. Lean Canvas), Artifacts (Experiment Design sheets, Persona's) & Processes (Scrum, Agile, Kanban) do teams use to make Lean work within their teams as effectively as possible.
30 votes -
Searching and facing early adopters for #custdev, an emotional rollercoaster!!
The hardest part of #customer development is the fear of rejection! What is worse the fear of rejection or killing your own baby? It is all about finding customers! Frits Oukes will share some StartupLessonsLearned (#SSL) on #custdev, searching and engaging early adopters
22 votes -
The Business Model Canvas as an Effectuation tool
They say that startups don't starve - instead we drown with too many options. Yet Effectuation gives us evidence that successful entrepreneurs tend to manage multiple goals and seek new collaborations. I've used the canvas in a unique way to make more explicit goal selection and partnership decisions, and used these techniques in accelerators where the number of options are heavily multiplied.
16 votes -
Using Design Thinking for creating products customers want
"Building something nobody wants is the ultimate form of waste.” – Eric Ries
This session in Sofia will start with a short a show and tell type for people who haven't experienced Design Thinking approach showing how to create innovative products so that:
- customers want them
- are ready to pay for
- and are technically feasible... now...
And then we can discuss your experience with Design Thinking and your story e.g. How did you kick start a team? How did you find remote customers to interview? How long did it take you to embrace different idea than your…5 votes
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