Lean Startup

How do you make the culture change from traditional to Lean work? It requires changing behaviors and building new habits and competencies. In this breakout session, Cindy Alvarez will share strategies that Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise division has employed to help its 8,000+ employees learn new skills, build new habits, and change behaviors. You'll learn the pros and cons of various approaches, what initial investments they required, and which situations they've worked best in. If your leadership is looking to you to recommend a Lean strategy, this session will help you make a recommendation that works best for your organization.

In this participatory, fishbowl-style panel, Lean Design experts discuss how Lean systems allow teams to more quickly iterate upon and scale their ideas. Panelists Courtney Hemphill (Carbon Five), Ken Skistimas (GE Digital), and Amy Neuman (Autodesk) will cover the process, infrastructure, and team configurations inherent to Lean Design. Expect solid takeaways on how to incorporate these practices into your organization, and the chance to ask questions of our panelists. Moderated by Amee Mungo (GoKart Labs).

Bionic CEO David Kidder sits down with Carey Kolaja, the Global Chief Product Officer of Citi Fintech, to discuss how this juggernaut of bank is changing the way it works and building disruptive fintech solutions like a startup. Kidder and Kolaja will delve into not just what Citi Fintech is focused on but how they built a program for growth that combines the Lean Startup methodology with growth boards, which manage the investment and support of new ideas so they aren't prematurely killed or (equally problematic) prematurely scaled.

Groups of attendees crowd the stage after every conference we host, hoping to get a minute with Eric to ask his advice. To help get as many of the questions plaguing your business or organization answered by Eric as possible, we’re hosting a “Office Hours with Eric Ries” in New York.

For this 30-minute session moderated by Jason Ashlock, Eric will be available via Skype to answer your questions about applying Lean Startup with your teams. You’ll learn not only how to resolve your internal issues, but also hear more about the challenges your peers in related industries are struggling with too. You’ll be asking your questions via the simple audience interaction app Slido, making for easy upvoting when those really pressing queries roll in.

Partner Webcast: How Enterprise Companies Can Use Product Analytics to Move Fast

When: Thursday, August 17 at 9am PT/noon ET

Featuring: Justin Bauer, VP of Product at Amplitude

Product leaders at enterprise companies face a variety of challenges to moving fast. They come up against issues such as a lack of urgency to learn, decision making formed by opinions instead of metrics, and a lack of accountability to and ownership of metrics. In the current “age of the customer,” making decisions and iterating quickly is critical to staying competitive. Justin Bauer, VP of Product at Amplitude, will discuss how leading product organizations are using product analytics to spur innovation and increase decision velocity. By decentralizing decision-making and using metrics to ensure alignment and accountability across large teams, enterprise companies can use product analytics to empower those closest to customers’ problems.

Justin will be interviewed by David Binetti, a Senior Faculty member with Lean Startup Co. Corporate Education Program and a six-time entrepreneur.

In this webcast Jim Cook, the current CFO of Mozilla, discusses his influential experiences running many of the early Netflix experiments. There were challenges every day, and data collection was rigorous. He is interviewed by Lean Startup Co. Corporate Education Program faculty member, Hugh Molotsi. www.leanstartup.co.

Groups of attendees crowd the stage after every conference we host, hoping to get a minute with Eric to ask his advice. To help get as many of the questions plaguing your business or organization answered by Eric as possible, we hosted a “Live Q&A with Eric Ries” in London.

For this 30-minute session, moderated by Dave Cunningham, Eric answered your questions via Skype about applying Lean Startup with your teams. He discussed not only how to resolve your internal issues, but also the challenges your peers in related industries are struggling with too.

For many established organizations, the problems are clear: disruption from more nimble startups, waterfall processes that waste time and resources, and a culture that rewards playing by inflexible rules over running customer-driven experiments. The solutions are less obvious. How do organizations launch and scale internal startups? How do you systemize intrapreneurship? How should you change the way you hold employees accountable to encourage continuous innovation?

Our Lean Enterprise experts Tendayi Viki and Janet Bumpas have actionable solutions to these questions and many others haunting Lean Enterprise practitioners. In this webcast, which will be moderated by six-time entrepreneur David Binetti, Tendayi and Janet will share case studies and actionable takeaways and answer your burning questions.

In transforming the way they work, GE knew it was time to rethink the performance process. Old performance management systems don’t work in a fast-changing market. The old way restricts them and doesn’t allow for the innovation critical for companies to remain relevant today. Join us in learning how to redefine and rebuild your company’s culture during an interview with Marilyn Gorman, Senior Faculty for Lean Startup Co.’s Education Program, and Janice Semper the Culture Leader for General Electric.The Lean Startup approach goes beyond building products and can be a toolkit used for the entire company, fundamentally changing the way we work and think.

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A Q&A with Product Expert Laura Klein

When: Thursday, September 15th at 10am PT / 1pm ET.

Featuring: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know

Most companies trying to incorporate Lean Startup into their product development process run into similar issues. There’s the question of where good design, user research, and product management fit into the Build, Measure, Learn loop. There’s the challenge of building something people love while shipping code 50 times a day. How do you build something great today while also planning for what to build tomorrow? And should you focus on user acquisition or making your current users happy?

Bring your questions, problems, and frustrations to this webcast with product expert Laura Klein. She’ll help you figure out how to create a user-centered, data-informed product cycle that lets you build, measure, and learn more effectively.

Moderated by Phil Dillard, Lean Startup Co. Faculty