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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Applying Lean Startup principles in practice
The most difficult part of Lean seems to be applying it in practice - especially to overcome our own inherent focus & bias, and focus on running experiments in an effective manner.
How can we best improve our processes? Should we work with an external advisor, team up with another startup and do frequent meetings? Are tools like Lean Launchlab, Lean Canvas & co useful for this purpose?
60 votes -
Cohort Analysis - how to do it in practice with Google Analytics
Cohort analysis is a powerful tool to understand your customers and ensure the product decisions you're making are actually creating a better service for your users. How being better should come before, and ultimately leads faster to, being bigger.
We'll look at what a cohort analysis is, how to use one in your startup or company, and how you can get started quickly with tools you're already using. Let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas for focus!
45 votes -
Build your reputation, engage the people you need
You can see the opportunities, you've got an idea, but you're currently on the outside of the ecosystem of stakeholders and influencers who can help make something happen.
What is the best approach to putting yourself at the centre of that ecosystem?
37 votes -
Visual Note Taking - how to do it!
Learn how to make your own sketchnotes - whatever your drawing skill!
29 votes -
Business model canvas as a working tool
I'd like to share experiences around using the business model canvas a working tool for brainstorming, exploring and validating different business models (I'll be using it to visualise multiple options we have for the same core idea, and hope it will help us, together with fast-paced cust dev, to make a decision which direction(s) to pursue).
26 votes -
The "Standard" Lean Kanban Board
Background: We are building https://www.blossom.io to help teams to apply 'lean' to how they develop products.
The Challenge: We want to provide them with a lean kanban board as suggested default template so they can get started immediately (low barrier).
But at the same time we are aware that providing a sensible default is very important and we could potentially end up with suggesting a half-assed board to thousands of people. This is quite a moral burden and therefore we ask for help & input of the community and people smarter than us :)
22 votes -
A crash-course into paper prototyping – workshop
The myth that you should limit yourself to digital tools when building digital products is a myth that stills ruins many projects. In this mini-workshop we'll uncover how paper prototyping can be used to get quickly up to speed in exploring and validating ideas.
20 votes -
I'm not sure what metrics are the important ones to test
A lot of talk about vanity metrics and why they're bad, but I've noticed it can be tough to choose which numbers to focus on. Maybe we can trade notes on this.
19 votes -
Tips for effective business blogging (with a twist on lean)
If no one cares about your blog, they won't care about your business either. The session will cover 10 tips for effective business blogging, with an emphasis on lean principles (short posts, understanding and optimizing metrics, etc).
19 votes -
Choosing MVPs as a starting point for disruption
At Leancamp, 2 founders from startups in the fashion industry have chosen different starting points for disruption – Andreas from Lookk and Devin from Lyst. It would be great to sit them down together to discuss how they chose their respective MVPs, what works, what doesn't and how they're continuing their search.
17 votes -
Propagation of Innovation
Borrowing from the thinking of OpenIDEO, Seth Godin's Linchpin, Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus, and building on an emerging topic in the advertising industry (google "Propagation Planning"):
How might we propagate innovative thinking and collective contribution to emerging ideas and design challenges? How to initiate and lead these communities? How to engage stakeholders? How to resource the community?
17 votes -
Validating your ideas through prototyping
An introduction in the many ways prototyping can be used to validate your ideas. From lo-fi prototyping in paper to hi-fi pixel perfect mockups, this presentation will give you plenty of ideas and resources to start testing your ideas without spending (much) money or being a programer or designer yourself.
15 votes -
Customer development: interview techniques
Based on a longer talk I gave on this topic, I'll provide some practical advice on how to do interviews with potential users/customers, including tools such as the 'topic map'. I see this session as a short talk. People then break into small groups to brainstorm their top questions/challenges, see if they have suggestions/solutions/ideas. Then we'll share back with the larger group.
14 votes -
How to observe and learn from customers in their environments using Diary Studies
Used in educational, psychology and design fields, diary studies are effective ways to get under the skin of potential customers, and gain insights about their problems and ideas of how to solve them.
This is a method of applying the "Genchi Genbutsu" (Toyota way) and Steve Blank's "Get out of the building", as covered in the Lean Startup book.
12 votes -
Invitation to the test- & hypothesis-driven: What to test and how to test it. HDD meets TDD?
Hypothesis-driven approaches help with focusing on the right unknowns from a business context, while keeping your eyes open to new opportunities. Test-driven development – write the test first, then the code to pass it – is being used to greater and greater success in software.
From an entrepreneurial standpoint it seems that hypotheses can help us choose better things to test, while the world of TDD has tried-and-true approaches to managing those tests.
What can each of these approaches gain from the other?
12 votes -
The Skills Pie - a simple tool for assessing what skills you need in a hire or co-founder
At the Balanced Team conference in SF in fall 2011, Moses Hohman gave this great talk (http://www.slideshare.net/balancedteam/06-sat-moses-hohman-balanced-team-conference-talk). We have iterated his tool - I call it the skills pie - since. I would present the tool, followed by a (small) group discussion/exercise on how to grow your team / find collaborators.
12 votes -
The Lean Social Enterprise
Lean Startup keeps us closely tied with the most pressing needs of our customers. How can Social Enterprise use this approach to better identify constituent needs, and build commercially viability and sustainability into the solution for the right reasons?
11 votes -
Useful Data Analysis Methods for Lean Startups!
Social science has a wide variety of data analysis methods that can be used by startups (e.g. t-test, ANOVA, Chi-Square). This session will highlight a few of these data analysis methods, by linking them to particular types of research design and data. We are hoping to collaboratively develop a set of tools that can be used to assess the validity of different business models, by mapping business hypotheses to specific research methods and data analysis tools.
11 votes -
How Lean Startup methods can be used for design inspiration
This session explores how to use Lean Startup to improve product development, design, and build better experiences. I'll draw mostly from my experiences working at startups and from my UX role at agencies, and applying it in a lean startup way.
9 votes -
How can I better flush out my Leaps Of Faith?
The more I learn from my customers, the more I uncover assumptions about them that I didn't know I had. I feel this could be sped up - but how?
9 votes
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