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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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.
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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?
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Applying Lean Startup to the Sales Process
Applying the Lean Startup methodologies used to identify and achieve Product-Market fit, to create experiments and metrics in the sales process to move from Customer Validation to Customer Creation & Company Building.
This is particularly important for companies with an enterprise/business-to-business sales process, where the sales cycle can last several months, or even a year or more. Without generating feedback loops and clear metrics, even companies achieving Product-Market fit risk failing because of gaps in their sales process.
22 votes -
How to win your first customers with "cold call" emails
We've been very surprised how emails to execs at large corporations have generated business for our SaaS company.
We've learned some tips and tricks along the way that really help with the success of these emails, and are happy to share.
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Applying Build-Measure-Learn to Startup Communities
How can communities better map and measure their startup ecosystems? This session would look at how community leaders can utilize Lean Startup methods to create and build more engaging startup communities.
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Minimizing Your MVP
Most initial products are probably bigger than they need to be- paring it down is hard, especially for the creative, energetic types that build new products and companies.
The idea with this session would be to talk through stories and outcomes, including the following:
* What were the truly pivotal assumptions?
* What could have been the MVP?
* What was the MVP?
* How did the experimentation go?
* And then?23 votes -
Mobile App vs. Responsive Web App?
I'd like to have a session to discuss experiences on how to weight this question:
'I have an idea I want to get out there and test. I need to provide an adequate experience and I need to get it in front of people. Should I build app's for iOS and/or Android; or should I do a responsive web app for starters?' What are the put's and take's of each course of action?9 votes -
Storyboarding as Customer Discovery Tool
I've recently had a lot of success with storyboard, both for my own ventures and for clients. I'd like to do a session where everyone creates a storyboard to describe their focal hypotheses about the customer. And then do show and tell, possibly iterate.
I have a few paper templates that (optionally) simplifying the drawing and sketching, which makes it easier to get started.
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What the @$!# is a customer?
One of the common problems people struggle with in applying Customer Development is that they talk about a generic customer. That makes it easy to create a solution that sounds good in theory, but doesn't actually make anybody happy. In this, I'll give a short talk about the common issues I see when mentoring teams, and then facilitate a discussion so that everyone can share relevant experience and get their burning questions answered.
7 votes -
What You should Do To Become a Data Driven Business
Everyone says data is important. Without context, data is just numbers; Noise at worst. This session will teach you how to understand and leverage the data you collect to help you make better decisions for your business
7 votes -
Personas as a tool for customer development at any stage
No matter at what stage you are customer development is something you must be doing and you cannot do that if you don't have a clear persona in mind and the job they are trying to accomplish.
We could have a session on how to devise a Persona sketch and use some of the techniques and cavases to discuss pain/gains and how Persona development can vastly help even with developing a single new feature in an established product
27 votes -
Lean startup methodologies for non tech companies
There is a common misconception that Lean Startup is only for tech/internet based companies.
Dispelling that could be a useful conversation to bring back the focus on learning and the methodologies rather than getting caught in the specific of internet technologies and things like landing pages or facebook/google ads.
19 votes -
Best practices for customer interviews
Sharing and discussing best approaching for customer interviews.
There is a known set of bad things to do like asking leading questions that could be useful to share and keep in mind along with another set of examples of good questions.
Furthermore there are also some good tips on how to conduct interviews (note taking, limit talking, splitting between problem and solution interviews) that could be useful to explore.
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Lean and Technical Debt
When we launch fast and iterate, we tend to build up technical debt.
When is the right time to pay off technical debt? How do we know when we're digging ourselves into a hole?
How do we avoid the knee jerk reaction of "time to refactor" whenever we start looking at a colleagues code?
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Breaking Silos twoards a Lean Enterprise
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.
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What contexts matter?
As Lean Startup is finding itself used in a lot of different places - web startups, corporate innvovation, lifestyle businesses, hardware, pharma - we're running up against teaching issues.
Novices like to be taught concrete steps, and eventually grow beyond that to understand when each tool or technique is appropriate. But given the context can be so different, it's tough to simplify and the risk in trying is that even simple steps are applied in the wrong context.
I'd like love it we got together to share and document different contexts, looking at exception cases where commonly-held Lean Startup beliefs…
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¿Juntando Design thinking, Agile y Lean?
La relación entre Agile y Lean está muy clara, pero Design Thinking... Parece interesante, pero ¿de qué os sirve? ¿Qué puede aportar a vuestros procesos? Os contamos nuestra visión.
A nosotros nos pasa a la inversa. Venimos de Design Thinking y
estamos descubriendo que no estamos solos.Veamos qué tenemos en común y qué nos diferencia, dónde nos solapamos y qué podemos incorporar unos de otros.
¿Os apetece averiguar cómo casar las tres disciplinas? ¡Nos vemos!
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Decision-making to seek growth and sustainability by looking at the key metrics of your business model
The majority of business models are based in a paid model. You acquire customers and they cost you money, so you have a customer acquisition cost (CAC). This needs to be compensate with the customer life time value (LTV) in order to build a growing and sustainable business. No matter what is this relation when you start (normally CAC>LTV), you only work as an entrepreneur is to reach this other situation, where CAC < LTV. So, the difference (LTV-CAC) is the money that you have to grow your business acquiring more customers.
How?
In one hand, CAC depends on what…
18 votes
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