The making of Playing Lean
The road to creating any great product is a bumpy one with many learning curves. In one of our previous webinars, game creator Simen told the story of all the bumps that Playing Lean went through, and how the game went from idea to product. In 2013, Simen was running a software methods focused consultancy […]
Serious games for teaching innovation
Board games are great at teaching innovation. They’re a lot more engaging and memorable than just a presentation. Here’s a list of three good games that we have tested in the Playing Lean team – including Playing Lean, of course! THE GETKANBAN BOARD GAME The getKanban game has been around for a really long time. The […]
How Playing Lean helped laun an innovative business advice service for SMEs
Design for Service is a consultancy company that has backed Playing Lean twice on Kickstarter. This is a guest post by Sean Buckland, owner of the company and his case study. How Design for Service came to sponsor Playing Lean Playing Lean 1 was the first Kickstarter I backed. I’d just read the Lean Startup by Eric Ries […]
Case Study: Mentive’s lean project
This is a guest post by Mentive – a company that has supported us in creating Playing Lean 2. Mentive is a Mexican startup that builds Digital Solutions focused on the e-commerce industry and provides services to boost sales for small and medium businesses. Its main purpose is to develop and grow in-house projects to create new sales […]
Three companies that boosted Playing Lean 2
Last year was an exciting year, with a successful Kickstarter campaign behind us that helped fund the production of a new Playing Lean game – the second edition, and new scenarios to expand the game. This was made possible with the help of 208 backers from all over the world who funded our initial goal and pushed it to […]
Playing Lean community is growing stronger!
When the idea for Playing Lean first came to Simen back in 2013, the goal was to make a game that would teach people Lean Startup in a fun way. We never thought that this idea would later grow in what it is today – a second release and a large Playing Lean community. After […]
False negatives and false positives
False negative and false positive are two terms that can cause a lot of discussions and misunderstandings. To put is as simple as possible, a false negative is a result that appears negative when it should not. On the other hand, a false positive is a result that appears positive when it should not. Playing […]
Identifying existing alternatives
So, you have identified, listed, and described your customer’s top 3 problems through structured Problem Interviews. Now your next step is to assess how are your customers solving those problems today – or in other words identify the existing alternatives. Ash Maurya writes: Your true competition is NOT determined by who you think they are, but who […]
How to do problem interviews
Together with Olav Loen we are now working on a digital version on Playing Lean. In this process we want to “practice what we preach” and have a lean startup approach to the entire process. The goal of the problem interview is to figure out who the early adopters of your product are going to be, what […]