This was a "refresher" session, devoted to discussing the group itself and its future. A brief summary:
- Lean is all about the reduction of waste
- "Lean Startup" perhaps a cross between agile software development and agile customer development
- LeanCoffeeTO has a strong "support group" aspect to it
- Resource / Definition reminder: "Running Lean" book: Steve Blank, Eric Reis, Bootstrapping
- Comparing to religion -- pick subsets, slightly different beliefs, but common uniting factors: principles
- Useful stuff: Processes, Case studies
- Needs improvement: Moving from high level to specifics -- ie. metrics, measurements
- Needs more coverage: Marketing, Financing, Scalability
- Potential revisits of core topics
- Important to record and/or summarize (No record of some earlier meetups)
- Potential spinoffs or separations:
- Workshops
- Two different weekly sessions, split on Product/Process or Cust Dev./Technical
- Foundery: Coworking, Incubation, Unfinished on purpose: Let participants define what it is
- Awesome (and somewhat surprising) how many people/companies have donated their space and bought coffee and snacks to support LCT -- My personal thanks to all of them!
- 30+ people is too big for the current format and splitting into multiple sessions would be beneficial
- I personally favor the biz/technical split -- possibly on tues/thurs morning
- Also I vote for a regular "official" Lean Drinks night -- perhaps once a month?
- Not big on the workshop idea, but seems like others are
- All of these things do require a bit of planning and organization
- Still, important to keep a nice balance between "formal" and "organic" (ie. it will suck if it gets too formal)
- Perhaps other can post their ideas as comments here or the LeanCoffeeTO message board?
P.S. If you'd like to be added to my LeanCoffeeTO Twitter list, just remind me at @jasonhanley or tweet with hashtag #LeanCoffeeTO and I'll add you.
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