The nationwide shutdown due to COVID caught many by surprise. Yet at Think Agile were we able to switch to a virtual training format seemingly “overnight”. How did we do it? We’ll let you in on a secret – it wasn’t overnight! Join us as we share a story of risk, uncertainty, and experimenting our way through the impact of COVID, using an Agile approach called Lean Startup. We will cover how we identified our riskiest assumptions and created a hypothesis to validate if people were interested in virtual training – even before the lockdown started. This session was delivered in partnership with Bevan Williams at Learning and Development 2020.

1. creating virtual
learning solutions
using lean startup
Angie Doyle & Bevan Williams

2. heart of agile
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3. collaborate
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Collaborate
Collaborate closely with others to generate
and develop better ideas. Communicate
often.
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1.

4. www.heartofagile.com
deliver
Deliver small probes to learn how
the world works. Expand
deliveries as you learn to predict
and influence outcomes.
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deliver2.

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reflect
Reflect periodically, along the way. Think about what you've
learned in your collaboration and from your deliveries.
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reflect3.

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Improve the direction of your
ideas, their implementation, and
your internal processes.
improve
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improve4.

7. heart of agile
www.heartofagile.com
Collaborate
deliver
reflect
improve
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8. “Lean Startup: A human
institution designed to
create a new product or
service under conditions of
extreme uncertainty
Eric Ries - Author of The Lean Startup

9. 9
Rewind 6
months...

10. Experimentation
over
Elaborate planning
Customer feedback
over
Intuition
Iterative design
over
Traditional “big
design up front”
buildmeasure
learn
https://hbr.org/2013/05/why-the-lean-start-up-changes-everything
lean
startup

11. innovators early
adopters
2.5% 13.5% 34%
early
majority
34%
late
majority
16%
laggards
the chasm
https://www.business-to-you.com/crossing-the-chasm-technology-adoption-life-cycle/
crossing the chasm
early market mainstream market

12. are people interested in virtual training?
1.

13. how can we increase engagement?
2.

14. is virtual training the right term to use?
3.

15. How can we limit
the number of
tools?
4.

16. what did we learn?
“Great course! But I am a classroom
learner!“
Samantha - Cape Town
30 March 2020
“The training went better than I thought and
even better than classroom format“
Siduduziwe - Johannesburg
2 July 2020

17. what’s next?
Half
days
Asynchronous
learning
Different
time slots
In
person?

18. heart of agile
www.heartofagile.com
Collaborate
deliver
reflect
improve
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19. “What is the smallest thing you can
take through
Build-Measure-Learn

20. thanks!
Any questions?
You can find us at:
www.thinkagile.co.za
info@thinkagile.co.za
@Doyle_Angie
@bevanwilliams