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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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.
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Transform established companies with Lean Start-up Methods
Lean is not only for start-ups. How can big companies embrace lean methods to improve and transform?
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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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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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How to become an informed business
“Data is not information,
information is not knowledge,
knowledge is not understanding,
understanding is not wisdom.”
Clifford StollA business' lifeblood is its data, but collecting data is only the start. Data needs to flow to the teams and individuals who can use it to make good decisions in a timely manner. An informed business is one that has the right data, tools and culture to be able to turn raw data into actionable insights.
I'll talk about the challenges businesses face when using data to help with decision making and how data, experience and intuition need to co-exist to…
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On The Scientific Method, Startups and Innovation
The lean startup approach to innovation focuses on applying the scientific method to the way startups are built. However, very few founders and innovators have expertise in science or the scientific method. In this talk, I will go over some of the core-principle of the scientific method and how it may be applied to the innovation process. The emphasis will be on the notion that science is a set of fundamental principles, rather than simple tactics such as A/B testing.
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Your MVP sucks! (workshop)
Some ideas have technology risks, some have eco-system risks, some risk being crushed by 500 lbs gorillas in the industry, but all ideas have Product / Market Risk.
If you build it, will they come? (and give you money.)
This will be an abbreviated version of the full day workshop on using storyboarding techniques to define an MVP to test Product / Market Fit. It will draw from Lean Startup, User Experience and Customer Development methods to focus on a small series of experiments designed to test if the market has a problem that will be solved by your solution.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Introduction to Lean & Agile Software Development
What's the product development side of a lean startup? Let's connect the people who are new to Lean & Agile (including practices such as Scrum, XP and Kanban) with some super experienced practitioners!
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Crafting Presentations that Can't fail
If you are an entrepreneur, you know that facing investors and prospects is not easy.
But how do you move beyond clarity and create an experience that systematically persuade and inspire change? Do you have ideas and tips? Let's share!12 votes -
Getting from concept to revenue in 120 days - how we applied a lean startup approach at Instant Opinion.
Instant Opinion CEO Aidan Kenny will take you on a run through our first 120 days, how we got from concept to revenue (@instant_opinion) & how we could have done it in 90 days
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What Lean misses is... UX!
I've been blown away by the world of Lean, not because the ideas are all so new, but because they're all so familiar! I come from a UX background and see a lot of good vibes, building upon etc. but also a lot of different jargon and lessons to be learnt from 'each other'. I see Lean and UX living in their separate worlds (worlds that we should merge). In this talk, I'd like to zoom in on the things that UX is awesome at to see how Lean can learn from it.
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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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Customer development and continuous deployment as marketing advantages
The session to discuss why and how leanstartup principles can be used as marketing advantages whether it's your 1-to-1 or wider communication.
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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?
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On why it failed
Everyone in this group is a speaker -- 3 to 5 minutes a piece, giving a quick "elevator pitch of failure" about what went crucially wrong at a failed company
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