Planview

MAY 20, 2022

Learning how to manage this will make all the difference when it comes to hitting deadlines and goals. Another important part of learning how to execute a project is prioritizing and identifying dependencies. Want to learn more about how to execute a project? Set Priorities and Identify Dependencies.

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Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

He had run into her at an event a few months back and learned that she had also started a new company with a few other co-workers. Steve learns about Minimum Viable Products Steve gets to the restaurant a few minutes before noon and grabs a quiet table in the back. Think of the Build/Measure/Learn loop as a fast idea validator.

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Meeting Product Development 89

Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

using a Lean Canvas ), and the quantitative business model assumptions (e.g. Rather, it should be about demonstrating traction for the idea by testing the core customer/problem (uvp), solution (demo), revenue (pricing) assumptions using an offer (not an MVP). lean sprints. using a Traction Roadmap). See: Don’t start with an MVP.

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Roadmap LEAN Ideation Tools 75

Leanstack

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Her advice about first using demos for defining (before building) an MVP finally clicked. The trick, he realized, was taking the time to develop a high-fidelity mockup versus using just a simple wireframe for the demo. So I agreed to add them to the demo. Many of my demos start out small. The brain is funny that way.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

No matter how you get work done, whether it’s Agile, traditional waterfall, Lean, or something in between, organizations must be able to establish an innovation culture where ideas are collected, evaluated, prioritized, and then turned into amazing products, services, and efficiencies that your business and your customers want.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

I should have realized there was a ton I could learn about corporate creativity by looking at Pixar. A director shares his latest progress in the the form of storyboards, demo reels, etc. I found other parallels between Pixar’s method for managing innovation and what we built in the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps incubators.

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Leanstack

JUNE 7, 2018

Taking the First Business Model Snapshot “Set a timer for 20 minutes and take a first snapshot of your idea on a Lean Canvas.” Steve interjects: “Wasn’t the goal validating the problem assumptions on the Lean Canvas?” “Yes, I see what you mean…So what’s the point of starting with a Lean Canvas then?” Then gets to work.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Given our history with “idea platforms” we were pessimistic at first, but changed our minds after meeting Carter Wigell, Ideator’s CEO, and getting a demo. Using Ideator, teams work collaboratively and alongside our lean startup coaches as they validate and refine concepts. What we saw was a simple and effective platform.

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

using a Lean Canvas ), and the quantitative business model assumptions (e.g. Rather, it should be about demonstrating traction for the idea by testing the core customer/problem (uvp), solution (demo), revenue (pricing) assumptions using an offer (not an MVP). lean sprints. using a Traction Roadmap). See: Don’t start with an MVP.

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Roadmap LEAN Ideation Tools 50

Your Ideas are Terrible

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Our grand finale is the Corporate Innovation Summit , where Atlanta’s innovation community will coalesce for a day of peer-learning and best practices. Instead of the corporation just leaning back and listening, everybody at the table is ready to work through a demo and discuss how the startup’s product can be implemented.

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Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2020

The typical accelerator runs a batch of 10 teams through a 3–4-month cohort leading up to the grand Demo Day where startups get to pitch to investors. You line up a curriculum on business modeling, lean startup, metrics, and pitching skills. What’s wrong with the 12-week accelerator model?

Ideation 52

Ideation LEAN Report System 52

Leanstack

MARCH 19, 2019

In the world of innovation, if you incentivize innovation managers simply to run hackathons or launch accelerators, the money gets spent: t-shirts get printed, foosball tables get purchased, Lean Canvases get hung. I once had a conversation with an accelerator that had low follow-on investment after their Demo Day.

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How To Innovation Roadmap System 75

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging? Look to processes like customer development, design thinking, and the build-measure-learn loop from lean startup.

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 29, 2019

For instance, if a leader in another business unit has developed a team to solve a similar problem in the past, they can help uncover areas of risk, stop a team from performing “duplicate work”, or offer their learnings in order to accelerate the pace of a project.

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Engagement Project Innovation Learning 79

Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging? We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets.

How To 109

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2020

The typical accelerator runs a batch of 10 teams through a 3–4-month cohort leading up to the grand Demo Day where startups get to pitch to investors. You line up a curriculum on business modeling, lean startup, metrics, and pitching skills. What’s wrong with the 12-week accelerator model?

Ideation 52

Ideation Report LEAN System 52

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. Solution 4 : What we have been missing is an innovation pipeline focused on deployment not demos.

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Technical Review LEAN Innovation Disruption 42

Econic

MAY 23, 2019

In true experimental fashion, there is also a lot of learning in the corporate innovation space. Which trends are most impacting your industry and how is your innovation team learning/exploring/leveraging? We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets.

How To 83

How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Leanstack

MARCH 19, 2019

In the world of innovation, if you incentivize innovation managers simply to run hackathons or launch accelerators, the money gets spent: t-shirts get printed, foosball tables get purchased, Lean Canvases get hung. I once had a conversation with an accelerator that had low follow-on investment after their Demo Day.

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How To Innovation Roadmap System 40

Outside Innovation

JUNE 30, 2015

If your CAB members know they can count on your semi-annual CAB meetings as a valuable opportunity to lift themselves out of day-to-day operations and to think strategically about their own business by learning about their peers’ strategies and challenges, they'll become willing to share their non-competitive plans with their peers for feedback.

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Technical Review Meeting LEAN Tips 40

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Approvals tended to be based on who had the best demo and/or slides or lobbied the hardest. A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. Lessons Learned. Ironically, by standing still, they were falling behind. As the head of the U.S.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. These numbers allow for every team to demo their projects to the judges. A good example is Eric Ries’s Lean Startup conference code of conduct. We’re creating a quickstart kit based on what we’ve learned running hackathons at the world’s most innovative companies.

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Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Examples Project 44

Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Here are some things you’ll want to keep in mind: Don’t just start demoing your product. State what you’ve learned – through research or experience. But in the lean startup methodology, all we’re looking for the one point of extreme frustration that we can eliminate. Let the customer talk. discussion, don’t try.

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