Session #3: Velocity as a Perpetual Vaccine to a Crisis
Objectives
- Lean Startup & Idea Validation
- Methodologies to increase your team’s speed and performance.
- Identifying Risky Assumptions
- Planning & running experiments to validate assumptions
- Offense Mindset vs. Defense Mindset in times of crisis.
Proposed outline
- 45 minutes – Building a culture that leads to speed – Lean Startup & Idea Validation
- 30 minutes – Exercise: Mapping Risky Assumptions
- 10-15 minutes – Peer Learning: showcase & analyze participants work
- 10 minutes – Break
- 30 minutes – Building & Running Experiments
- 30-45 minutes – Exercise: Building an Experiment (+showcase & analyze participants work)
- 10 minutes – Break
- 15 minutes – The underlying principles of building and shipping a MVP
Workshop exercise
Learning outcome
- Internalize the importance of speed and velocity as core values in building a startup
- Understand the fundamental elements on which the Lean Startup methodology is based on
- Master the ‘Risky Assumptions’ matrix and understand how to identify and evaluate assumptions
- Understand how to develop effective experiments with the goal of validating your assumptions at speed
- Exposure to various tools, best practices, and methodologies to increase focus and productivity
Presentation
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Open in new tab Resources & Additional Readings
- The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Validating Your Startup Idea – Part 1 & Part 2
- Validation 101
- Validation Guide
- 3 Ways to Prepare for a Future You Can’t Predict