AgileCamp 2014 Track 4: Your Plans meet Reality with Lean Canvas, Dennis Britton, Agile Coach & Collaboration Architect Lean Dog

1. APPLYING THE LEAN CANVAS
EXPEDITING YOUR PATH
TO A VIABLE BUSINESS
Facilitated by Dennis Britton
#DiscoverySpaces @dennis_britton
www.discoveryspaces.com

2. ACTIVITY TONIGHT
Start to 2:05 : Meet and Greet, Sign-In, Get
Settled, Tweets #leancanvas
#discoveryspaces @dennis_britton
to 2:15 Collective Pitching of Your Ideas
onto Canvanizer
to 2:20 We choose the lively one!
to 2:40 Walk through the Lean Canvas
Process with that business idea
to 2:55 Follow through with setting of
objectives and hypotheses and running of
experiments to validate riskiest assumptions
first
to End - Retrospective: How’d that work for
you? How valuable?

3. ORIGINS
• Alexander Osterwalder
• Ash Maurya
(We should also have the One Page Business Plan book here)

4. WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT LEAN
CANVAS?
Read all these books?
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…or do a Lean Canvas Workshop?

5. DOES IT WORK?
• $250k first round funding secured from
NTTI3 Incubator with help of my Lean
Canvas Workshop

6. WANT HELP DOING ONE OF THESE
FOR YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICE?
• Attend a Full Day Workshop
• Outcome:
1. You have a Lean Canvas One Page
Business Model.
2. You know how to methodically identify
and test the risks and assumptions
against the real world until you have a
solid grounding for running your
business.
3. You know how to ‘Get out of the
building’ and talk/ interview/cajole
customers into being your partners in
success
• Action?
• Let us know of your interest:
info@discoveryspaces.com

7. BROWN BAG OFFER AND
CONSULTING
• DiscoverySpaces comes to your
company of 5 or more people (for
an hour max) and creates a Lean
Canvas out of one of your product
ideas
• Free! ( Although we would like
some feedback and especially
appreciate some social media
wuffies if you really liked us.)
• How? Come talk to us or email
info@discoveryspaces.com with
your request.

8. NEXT STEPS
• Attend Ash Maurya’s upcoming Workshop in San Francisco
http://spark59.com/ May 29-30, 2014 9am-5pm I have a 25%
discount code for you courtesy of Ash. realitycanvas
• Tristan Kromer is offering workshops as well. Check the
LeanStartupCircle meetup
• Attend our workshop in early June. Sign up on the email list for a
20% discount and notification when the date and venue is set
• Tweet about this session:
• #leancanvas @dennis_britton #discoveryspaces

9. APPLYING THE LEAN CANVAS
EXPEDITING YOUR PATH
TO A VIABLE BUSINESS
Facilitated by Dennis Britton
#DiscoverySpaces @dennis_britton
www.discoveryspaces.com