Lean Coffee

An introduction to Lean Coffee.

Transcript

1. Lean Coffee A flash talk by @schwuk
2. will not help you lose weight* *unless you are already on a diet
3. will help you have directed and productive meetings
4. good content means more attendees
5. more attendees means more content
6. but…
7. more content does not always mean good content
8. who decides if content is good?
9. the audience
10. Lean Coffee is about democratising meetings
11. the audience decides the content
12. the audience controls the discussion
13. you will need: Post-itⓇ notes, pens, some sort of timer
14. …and people
15. step 1: create a Kanban board
16. Kanban is a method for managing knowledge work with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery
17. 看板 (Kàn Bǎn) roughly translates as “signboard”
18. Kanban puts the “lean” in Lean Coffee
19. To Do Doing Done
20. step 2: create topics* *one topic per Post-itⓇ
21. anyone can suggest a topic
22. a topic should be relevant to the meeting
23. a topic could be a presentation, a demo, a pitch, or an open question
24. step 3: introduce the topics
25. step 4: vote!* *two votes each
26. step 5: prioritise!
27. fill the to do section, sorted by number of votes
28. step 6: action!
29. move the first topic to doing
30. start a timer for eight minutes
31. start the topic
32. when the timer is up, take a Roman vote
33. mostly thumbs up? put another four minutes on the timer
34. mostly thumbs sideways? put another two minutes on the timer
35. mostly thumbs down? move the topic to done, and select a new topic from to do
36. step 7: iterate!
37. (optional) step 8: review
38. not only have you had a great meeting…
39. …you’ve learnt/taught Kanban!
40. lanes,prioritisation, work-in-progress constraints, feedback loops, and collaboration
41. The principles of Lean Coffee can be used for any type of meeting
42. http://leancoffee.org/ Lean Coffee™ is a trademark of Modus Cooperandi Colour scheme is “Annie Colour Scheme 2” from Adobe Kuler: http://adobe.ly/1AMlykY