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Why Lean Startup Changes Everything!
Fredi Schmidli, Board Member of StartAngels.ch
The myth goes that the more perseverance, brilliance, good timing and a good product, the higher the chance for success. I will show you why exactly the opposite is true: Survival and, even more so, success are highly correlated with the successful application of the “Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop”. The fact that this lean framework can be learned and taught is the final kill of the myth. I will give examples of how you can deliver more business value earlier and with less risks by testing everything as soon as possible using a so-called Minimum Viable Product.
Fredi Schmidli is a free-spirited Entrepreneur, Business Angel and Leaders Coach. He sets up and invests in Startups in Health Care and ICT. Fredi’s passion is to make companies more successful by applying Agility to business processes throughout the whole hierarchy. In doing so, he focuses on working together with Owners, Entrepreneurs and Top Managers.
Fredi is a Member of the Board of startangels.ch, engaged in The Lean Startup Zürich Community, and a Leaders Coach at pragmatic solutions gmbh. He is a regular speaker around the world as well as a slow motion Ice Hockey player.
Workshop: A Viable Product in 20 Minutes with a Lean Canvas
Peter Stevens, Entrepreneur and Scrum Trainer
If Lean Startup is changing our approach to creating new companies and products, then new tools are needed to help us understand what are customers really want. The workshop will introduce to you to one such tool. The Lean Canvas. By brainstorming on few simple questions, you quickly identify what problem you are trying to solve, who you are solving for, and whether there is a business case for it.
In this workshop, you will learn to create a Lean Canvas by applying to your own situation, so you can see more clearly what your customers and users need from you.
Peter Stevens is an Entrepreneur and Certified Scrum Trainer. As the former, he is leading the creation of echobravo, the system to help businesses of all sizes solve the social media problem. As a CST, he teaches teams and organization to solve problems — the right problems — quickly and effectively. He initiated the Scrum Breakfast, which became the swissICT Lean-Agile-Scrum working group and co-founded the Stoos Movement to catalyze a lasting change in management.
Location: Training Room Zürich West, Hardturmstrasse 181, Zürich
Keywords: Lean Startup, Agile, Scrum, Enterprise, Management, Business Plan, Budgeting, Stoos, Apéro
This event will be held in English unless everyone can agree on German..
Program
Date: January 23, 2013
Admission is free! Registration is required.
Afternoon Program
14.00 Door Open / Welcome & Coffee
14.30 Fredi Schmidli – Why Lean Startup Changes Everything!
15:20 Break
15:40 Peter Stevens – Creating a Vision for Viable Product with the Lean Canvas
17:00 Apéro / Networking
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