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Lean Startup Is Continuous Improvement of Value Discovery

I love the Lean Startup. Our language in the Lean-Agile community was enriched significantly with the introduction of concepts such as minimum viable products, pivots, lean experiments, validated learning, and vanity…

January 16, 2020

Qualification Program, Shiftup, Workshops

The Lean-Agile Mindset Exercise

In this exercise, you discuss lean-agile values and principles and how they line up with the ten business lifecycle stages. The goal is to have a better understanding of which values…

January 13, 2020

Qualification Program, Shiftup

The Lean-Agile Values & Principles Exercise

In this exercise, you discuss examples of good team/organizational practices, and you match them with lean-agile values and principles. The primary goal is to get a sense of what other people…

January 10, 2020

Qualification Program, Shiftup

Combining Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Development - Everyone Misses the Point of Continuous Innovation

Don’t be fooled by complicated diagrams. The Innovation Vortex is neither complicated nor linear. It is complex, simple, and dynamic. People like diagrams; they like colors, and they like making things…

January 6, 2020

Qualification Program, Shiftup

Ikigai: Learn how to find your company’s purpose

In 2018, during my vacation to Japan, I learned that the Japanese love food, cleanliness, and punctuality. I also learned that the fountains in the toilets are not for drinking, and…

January 2, 2020

Qualification Program, Shiftup

Service Design and Design Thinking: Complementary to Scrum and Kanban

Have you ever watched your (potential) customers try to get their work done? Have you followed people in their daily work lives, and have you seen them struggle with products and…

December 29, 2019