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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How to define Early adopters and the Value proposition of your Start-Up the Lean Way. A simple Tool.
This workshop will teach how to use a visual tool to define in minuts your early adopters and the value proposition of your Start-Up.
The tool helps entrepreneurs to quickly come up with Value propositions focused on early adopters. This tool aslo helps teams to unleash their creativity and come up with great number of product ideas and features in minuts.
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In the founders' studio with Joel Gascoigne, founder of Buffer
Joel founded Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) and used Lean Startup to take it from idea to first paying customer in 7 weeks ! And that was part-time bootstrapping!
Joel will be in Hong Kong, but has agreed to Skype in for a session. We'll do the In The Founders' Studio interview format, so everyone can take the role of the interviewer and dig into topics useful to them.
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Business Model Canvas & the lean canvas. Let's share experiences & what works for you?
I'd like to share experiences around using the business model canvas both the Business Model Innovation & the Lean Canvas as a working tool for brainstorming, exploring and validating different business models, ideas & products. We can share techniques & experiences with the canvases?
@marylcronin17 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?
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Fishbowl - How To Facilitate "Five Whys"
Let's trade notes on facilitating Five Whys. It's a really useful faciliatation method for root cause analysis in groups, which features in The Lean Startup and Gamestorming.
I've been using it for a while, but still get stuck on things like articulating a question well, or choosing which answers to dig into.
It would be great for novices and experienced facilitators to share challenges and tips.
I need at least one other person experienced with Five Whys to make this happen. Any volunteers?
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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.
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Raising Funds - What are my options?
I will look at funding options for entrepreneurs, from bootstrapping, to angel funding, to crowd sourcing to VC funding to grant funding and share our personal experience of these options @raomal
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Qualitative UX research as Customer Development - How to get to the WHY
We all understand we have to get out of the building. But how, exactly, do you do that? I think here we can learn for the UX field. I'm a UX researcher myself and would like to do a hand-on workshop on how to get from metrics to answering the WHY-question. We'll be using my own Situational Thinking model to learn how to understand the world behind the numbers; the world of the users. Let me know what you think! @Samantha_Hosea
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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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Hypothesis to customer interview to actionable learning - a #custdev how-to
I'd like to share an overview of the process I use for Customer Development, which has been evolved by combining insight from Johanna Kollmann, Janice Fraser, Cindy Alvarez, Rob Fitzpatrick and Ian Collingwood and others. Since both Rob and Ian - and Brant Cooper - will be joining us in Barcelona, I'd like to invite them to a round-table to discuss the approach and make suggestions.
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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.
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Hypothesis to interview to actionable learning - how I hacked together Janice Fraser, Ian Collingwood & Cindy Alvarez's Lean approaches
I'd like to share an overview of the process I use for Customer Development, which has been evolved by combining insight from Johanna Kollmann, Janice Fraser, Cindy Alvarez, Rob Fitzpatrick and Ian Collingwood and others. I'll cover how I do Customer Development for 10 minutes, then open up for questions, comments, and especially any advice you all might have!
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From Zero to Hero thru Visual Management
At the beginning it was the idea... your incredible amazing brand new IDEA! That's really Great, man! And now what?
How do we put our Idea down to earth? That's the most complex step on the way to success. A lot of perspectives and a lot of questions that must be validated in order to reach our goals.
To do that the most eficient way is using Visual Management tools: From Business Model Canvas to Kanban taskboards. Those tools will ensure you share and learn at every step of your project, startup or whatever you are working on.
Definition of…
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[ESP] Peligros y ventajas de #Scrumban
Hace tres años, cuando Runroom literalmente abrió sus puertas a la comunidad ágil, nuestro primer panel de Scrumban despertó las suspicacias de los agilistas más ortodoxos. Esta metodología, híbrido de Kanban y Scrum, nunca fue bien vista del todo. Incluso hubo quien, en un alarde de agudez maléfica, quiso rebautizarla como Scrummal… Haters, haters everywhere.
Y, qué quieres que te diga! En muchos casos, no les faltaba razón. Aún y así, a día de hoy seguimos utilizándola y las voces críticas se han apagado por completo.
Me gustaría compartir contigo lo que he aprendido todo este tiempo. Dónde nos equivocamos,…
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Pair blogging: Creating better content through discussion
We're all able to have a passionate discussion about a topic with someone over coffee - but most of us are pretty bad at putting an argument in written form.
I'd like to share a format that we've recently been experimenting with, inspired by Pair Programming and the Pomodoro Technique: 5min discussion with peer, 15min writing your article, 5min review of first draft. (Repeat till done)
This is an interactive session - we'll pair up and you are expected to write content. Everyone writes their own post - the other person is merely there to help you formulate the content…
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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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Discovering Desire
Traditional focus groups take a product or idea and gauge people's responses to it. One of the inspiring things about lean methods is building innovative products around desires and needs people didn't know they had. What are the skills, methods and technologies for listening out for those desires without predetermined outcomes or leading questions?
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Leadership for Startups
Something (lean) startups might not look at in the first place is, how to grow the organization, when the idea turns out to be successful. Sometimes though, talking to investors, respective concepts have to be presented already early. So the question is, how can we grow a startup into a powerful organization, not loosing the initial spirit and not turning it into a bureaucratic vehicle. In this session people will share their approaches, ideas and possible resources for a kind of "Startup Leadership".
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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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Real-life example: Customer Development with Design Thinking & Lean Methods
As I finished my study in design thinking and service management, I applied some learned methods to our p2p-Carsharing-Startup autonetzer.de. I want to share my experiences and some principles including metrics applied to autonetzer.de and how we transformed business running more lean. I fokus on customers as I'm also in charge of marketing and customer service.
14 votes
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