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.
Please comment and discuss. Use votes to register interest so the session host can understand if the topic is interesting to people. (Votes do not get used to choose the session – we’ll do that together at 10am.)
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33 results found
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How We Increased Pleygo's Conversion Rate 200% in 1 Month.
A step by step walk through of our process, including hard numbers:
- funnel analysis
- prospect interviews
- mockups and copywriting
- a/b test
- results
tools used: Qualaroo, Optimizely, Silverback, Load Impact
3 votes -
Teaching Lean
Teaching Lean
1 vote -
Lean Leadership - Managing Team Dynamics
What are the keys to successful product outcomes for lean startups?
How do we demonstrate a continuous improvement mindset?
How do we create a culture to sustain improvement?
Why do respecting and improving standards contribute toward improvement?
Why use lean principles for leadership?I've got some ideas and will share, but these are just a starting point for discussion.
6 votes -
Storytelling Prototyping for Early Stage Startups
A skill-building workshop using Keynote or Powerpoint to create a simple 3-slide interactive prototype to tell the core story of your product. This is a powerful tool to use during Customer Development to communicate and quickly pivot/modify your message.
I've successfully used this as a tool to close business deals, present at pitching events and to quickly tell my company story in just a few sentences. Show don't tell is a powerful way to create sellable ideas.
• For founders of early stage startups or a product where you want to quickly test a modification/pivot
• I'll review the process…
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Bootstrapping Your Way to a Revenue-Generating Enterprise Startup
Using a few case studies I've put together (including my startup Be Scrappy as an example), we'll look at options that startups in the enterprise space can use to pivot, finance and evolve their business plans over longer periods of time. Surviving in the enterprise space takes a lot of creativity as a "small fish" in a very big ocean. Remind the enterprise that startups are friends not food :D.
• For founders who have or want to create a product in the enterprise space
• We'll review the case studies and then go into a fish bowl discussion so…1 vote -
3 votes
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Waking up dead projects: the dragon within
As a founder or co-founder of startups you may have dead projects in your closet. It is my case and for some of them it bothers me that they are staying in the closet.
Why did they die? It could be that you ran out of money, that you had a major disagreement with a team member, that a major resource abandoned ship, that you pivoted, etc.
But in the back of my mind, I still feel that they have some potential, and there is all this development which has already been done, etc.
Is this feeling shared by other…
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Best techniques to manage the highs and lows of the life of a startup founder
Have you been in these situations:
- Exuding confidence to the outside world while being gnawed by doubt?
- Discovering that you have lost direction for several weeks and that you have been completely unproductive?
- Feeling less passionate about your current project and more interested in a new venture?
- Pursuing too long a project which has been comatose for a long time?
We would explore different ways to manage these situations and maybe prevent them from happening.
I am especially interested in circle accountability.6 votes -
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 -
When is the right time to Pivot
When the processes of measurement and learning are correctly put in place, at some point it becomes clear that a company is either moving the drivers of the business model or not. If not, it is a sign that it is time to pivot or make a structural course correction to test a new fundamental hypothesis about the product, strategy and engine of growth?
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10 Product Management Hacks for Times when you’re strapped for Resources
You might be a startup or a product team inside of a larger organization. Everything is super urgent and needs to be finished by yesterday. You are strapped for resources and desperately try to make ends meet. Anxiety kicks in. Motivation turns into pessimism & cynism. Things get worse.
Here are a few lessons learned on what you can do in situations when you find yourself hopelessly strapped for resources & fighting against all odds.
29 votes -
How to create a strategic partnership with more advanced / well-known startups?
When you are a startup with a MVP or a product with some traction, a lot of potential, but few paying customers, how to get the attention of a successful startup to build a strategic partnership?
- How to identify a successful startup that could be interested?
- Why would this startup be interested and what could be the deal / win-win?
- Who to call? What is the decision process? Average time before getting a decision? Should we approach several startups in the same field at the same time?
- Is it true that APIs and platforms can be useful? How and Why?
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11 votes -
Lean Product Marketing
Tools, tactics, strategies and examples of how to get your idea, product and self out there using lean content marketing techniques in order to:
- build a brand
- gain a following
- nurture a community
- create a marketing funnel
- test concepts
- get quality feedback
- activate evangelists
- collect product stories
What is lean content?
writing less but saying more, using curation, fast feedback loops and tools to provide on-demand messaging across platforms29 votes -
Getting robots or hardware into cust dev quickly
Hardware isn't as hard anymore but what are the best practices for getting a prototype into customer development quickly? Are there some forms of hardware or robotics that suit lean methodologies and others that still need a big upfront investment of technical development? I'm bringing real robotics companies together to share their experiences and ask you for advice. How lean can robotics go?
25 votes -
Lean Prioritization
In this hands-on, interactive session, you will a simple but effective method for to build consensus among stakeholders and produce a clear, prioritized product backlog. This is a team-based exercise and can be used with both co-located and remote teams.
You may come alone and join a team to prioritize a “dummy” backlog or bring your stakeholders to receive training and practice for your product.
13 votes -
Building MVP for enterprise clients
It seems enterprise customers have higher requirement and standards for software. If we startups screw up once, we probably are not going to get to the door again.
When building enterprise product for customers, how lean MVPs can be? How to cheat important security and stability issue when serving enterprise customers?
33 votes -
Experiment Mapping Workshop
If you want to find a way to break the "experimenting to see what happens cycle", then this is for you.
In this interactive workshop, we'll identify risky assumptions, create testable hypotheses and map experiments to greatest learning, shortest time box.
23 votes -
Overcome Resistance to Adopting Lean in Your Organization
You like lean. I like lean. We all like lean. Actually, we don't all like lean...
How can we influence the people blocking our adoption of lean? There are tested, proven approaches from a discipline called 'change management' that apply to any situation where changing behavior is the goal. Let's review what you - as a scrum master, line manager, coach, etc., can do to help drive adoption of lean.27 votes -
Is Parallel Exploration a Way to Break the Pivot or Persevere Dilemma?
In "Don't Let The Minimum Win Over the Viable" at http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/05/dont-let-the-minimum-win-over/ David Aycan suggested a parallel exploration model as a contrast to pivot or persevere, advising entrepreneurs to "prototype multiple MVPs in tandem." This session would explore the risk and benefits of parallel exploration vs. sequential refinement and pivoting around a single product concept.
14 votes -
Identifying and Collaborating with Earlyvangelists for Shared Success
What are good indicators you are working with an earlyvangelist in a medium or large firm? What are some warning signs? How do you make sure you create a long term working relationship. What are key things you can do to build shared trust that you can deliver your vision as an MVP and ultimately a whole product?
5 votes
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