Lean Startup is definitely a buzz word of the day. Regardless of whether you have already started your own business, are thinking about starting one, are working for a small company, or are just getting tired of working for large corporations, here is an opportunity for you to find out what makes the difference in startup success.
Agile Vancouver welcomes you to the Lean Startup conference to listen to and interact with a veritable Who's Who of Lean Startup speakers. Registration is already open, so don't miss your opportunity to learn from industry leaders such as Ash Maurya, Rob Walling, Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits, and many others.
The conference will be held on May 5-6 at the Hilton Vancouver Airport hotel.
The full day of sessions on May 5 will be followed by a day of tutorials on May 6.
Sessions (May 5):
Owen Rogers and Steve Jones: Evolving Products Using Validated Learning
Rishi Dean: The New Rules of Early-Stage Product Development
Ash Maurya: Instrumenting for Speed, Learning, and Focus
Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits: It's the end of the (startup) world as we know it.
Rob Walling: Lessons Learned Moving From Developer to Entrepreneur
Panel: Startup & Money
Tutorials (May 6):
Ash Maurya: Running Lean Workshop - Getting to Release 1.0
Rob Walling: From Zero to Launch: A Step by Step Blueprint
Brant Cooper: The Art of the Customer Development interview and other Customer Development Hacks.
Early bird tickets start at $150.
Get more information at http://www.agilevancouver.ca/lean-startup-conference/.
Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1262743901?ref=eweb
About the Conference
Who should attend?
Anyone who is:
- either working for or planning to work for a start-up
- losing sleep because of having a brilliant idea and wanting to see it implemented
- tasked with designing new features and wants to know how to validate ideas and business assumptions with customers
- wanting to reduce waste and amplify learning
- curious to know what all the excitement is about
Agenda
Check out the session details on the Conference Agenda page.
Tutorials
Attend one or more of the Conference Tutorials to get more in-depth coverage of selected topics.
Speakers
Speakers that we will be welcoming at the conference are: Ash Maurya, Rob Walling, Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits, Rishi Dean, Owen Rogers and Steve Jones. You can read more details about them on our Speakers page.
Send Us Your Suggestions
If you have any ideas about other topics, we would love to hear from you. Send an email with your suggestions to:michael@agilevancouver.net .
What is Lean Startup all about?
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Startup):
Lean Startup is a set of processes used by entrepreneurs to develop products and markets, combining Agile Software Development, Customer Development, and existing software platforms, (usually FOSS).
Lean Startup initially advocates the creation of rapid prototypes designed to test market assumptions, and uses customer feedback to evolve them much faster than via more traditional software engineering practices, such as the Waterfall model. It is not uncommon to see Lean Startups release new code to production multiple times a day, often using a practice known as Continuous Deployment.
Lean Startup is sometimes described as Lean Thinking applied to the entrepreneurial process. A central tenet of Lean Thinking is to reduce waste. Lean Startup processes use Customer Development to reduce waste by increasing the frequency of contact with real customers, therefore testing and avoiding incorrect market assumptions as early as possible. This approach attempts to improve on historical entrepreneurial tactics by reducing the work required to assess assumptions about the market, and to decrease the time it takes a business to find market traction. This is referred to as Minimum Viable Product.