Playing Lean Startup Board Game Workshops

The biggest waste that product development faces today is not building things inefficiently,
but building things very efficiently that nobody wants.

Eric Ries, Author, The Lean Startup

In 2011 Eric Ries released a book called The Lean Startup.  It taught us a more effective way of working using a product/service development process that meets customer needs and maximises a business’ return on investment.

The fastest way to learn these powerful principles of The Lean Startup is to play the board game Playing Lean.  It’s an interactive simulation using a board game where you compete to launch and grow an online product and build market share.  Discover how to make resource allocation decisions to generate sales, conduct experiments and build your product to be the first to reach the mass market.

Who will Benefit?
This workshop is ideal for people in roles that create new products and services plus those who influence a business’ ways of working for either projects or Business As Usual (BAU) operational.  Job roles typically include:

• Product Owners
• Product Managers
• Product General Managers
• Product Developers
• UX & CX Designers
• Agile Project Managers
• Agile Delivery Manager
• Agile Coaches
• Scrum Masters
• Marketing Operations
• Project Management Office (PMO) leaders
• Transformation Managers/Directors

Typical Playing Lean Startup Workshop Agenda

In this workshop, Becci uses the triple reinforcement to maximise learning.
..  She teaches The Lean Startup principles (See One)
.. we reinforce these by applying the Lean Startup practices by playing the game (Do One)
.. we create a customised action plan to start applying these practices and teaching others the improvement to ways of working and new product development processes (Teach One)

The typical agenda is:

• Introductions – facilitator learns participants’ expectations and experience with Lean Startup and product development by experimentation
• Fundamentals of Lean Startup – facilitator teaches the fundamental Lean Startup principles (the condensed highlights of the book)
• Rules of Playing Lean – participants get into teams and learn the rules of the game
• Let’s Play – participants play with the facilitator highlighting key learnings along the way
• Retrospective – participants share what they learned, what worked and what didn’t and why
• Action Plan – together we create an action plan for participants to return to work and change our ways of working to incorporate the key practices
• Wrap Up & Close

Playing Lean Startup Workshop Details
Minimum: 4 participants
Maximum: 12 participants
Workshop Duration: 3.5 – 4.5 hours, depending on whether participants have read The Lean Startup book previously or have applied any of the practices.

Becci is a certified Playing Lean Game Master facilitator.  She brings experience having applied The Lean Startup process with experimentation into transformations to operational ways of working.

Book your Playing Lean Startup Workshop, Contact Becci today.