Oki Tåg and Steven Balliano - Lean-intro - Mindtrek 2016

Lean Workshop

Mindtrek // IoT Event Workshop17th Oct 2016

The Facilitators

Oki Tåg● 10+ years of startups● lean since 2008

Steven Balliano● Validation obsessed

entrepreneur

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What kind of projects are you working on?

Today

● Why Lean matters? Is it something for me?● How to practice Lean● Actual work + Tools

Continue until 14:45 (15:00)

The agenda for the workshop...

...is to accelerate your learning speed.

Business model, one way to think

“Explain who has your money temporarily in his pocket and how you're going to get it into yours.”

Principles

Traditional way:“A solution looking for a problem”

Lean way:“Identify a problem that we can solve”

Why does Lean matter?

Startup and its evolution

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. -- Steve Blank

Each iteration (a pivot) is a substantive change in one or more components regarding your business model.

Lean Canvas

•Why lean methods matter•Build understanding about your end-customer•Question your ideas•Fast!•Create a working business model

• How and when to use them •When you have a novel idea (testing needed to validate the idea)

Objectives

Workshop

- Find candidates to interview (who to ask)- Learn interview basics (what to ask)

Objectives for Today

Customer Personas

Who is my potential customer?

Who can I easily access?

Customer Problems

Customer X might have problem Z

Get Out Of The Building!

Interview potential customers

Analyze Results & Next Steps

Pivot or Persevere?

QUESTIONS

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Steven Ballianosteven@digirockstars.com

+358 45 848 1112

Oki Tågoki@digirockstars.com

+358 41 501 1501