Lean Coffee
(now with beer!)
Chelsea Winfree
Sr. Process Architect @
Cloud49
Lean coffee is...
"A structured, but agenda-less meeting."
Simple.
Lean Coffee v: 2.67
You will need:
People
Sticky Notes
Pens
Ideas
Coffee
Place to put sticky notes
Voting mechanism (pens, stickers...)
How it works
1) Kanban board
2) Idea Creation
3) Pitch Your Ideas
4) Voting
5) Kick off!
version 2.67
1) 4 minutes of discussion
2) Vote on continuation
3) 2 more minutes of discussion until...
Version 2.67 (cont)
4) Majority votes thumbs down
Benefits?
No preplanning or preloading a meeting!
Talk about interesting topics!
Air out concerns with the team!
Coffee... Beer!
Lean Coffee v. 2.67
Kick it off!