WHAT IS LEAN COFFEE(tm)?

Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. There are currently dozens of Lean Coffees happening world-wide, including Seattle, San Francisco, Stockholm, Toronto, Boulder, New York City, Jakarta, and more.

WHERE DID LEAN COFFEE START?

Lean Coffee started in Seattle in 2009. Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith wanted to start a group that would discuss Lean techniques in knowledge work – but didn’t want to start a whole new cumbersome organization with steering committees, speakers, and such. They wanted a group that did not rely on anything other than people showing up and wanting to learn or create.

Now, Seattle Lean Coffee happens every week, is very popular, and requires only that someone who has been there before shows up – and even then it’s just so they know where we stash the post-it notes.

HOW DOES LEAN COFFEE WORK?

The format for a Lean Coffee is very simple. This is intentional. It is meant to be the least structure necessary for a coherent and productive meeting. No more, no less.

1. Set up a Personal Kanban

In this Personal Kanban we have the items to discuss, what we are currently discussing, and the discussed columns. This provides a structure for the conversation. Next we populate it:

2. What to Discuss

People all get pads of post-it notes and a pen. They then start to add their topics for conversation into the “to discuss” column. These can be literally whatever people want to discuss or follow a theme. Right now, we want to encourage as many unique ideas as we can.

When the ideas start reach a certain point (an you’ll be the best judge of when that is), each topic gets a 1 to 2 sentence introduction. This way people know what to vote for.

 

WHAT IF I WANT TO START A LEAN COFFEE?

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In Indonesia, where the PROJECT GENERAL COMPANY (www.project-general.com)  manages projects we see significant growth in the Project Management Profession and a need for increased education and networking.

To help foster the growth as of Project Management as a profession, the The PROJECT GENERAL COMPANY Jakarta, is a Sponsor of #SYMEX2019 in Bali, Indonesia March 13, 24, 2019.

#SYMEX2019 (https://pmi-indonesia.org/symex/)  is the Largest Project Management Symposium and Exhibition in Indonesia.  The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum for industry professionals, business owners, educators, researchers, policy-makers and graduate students with opportunity to explore and discuss issues in project management topics. This year’s theme will be Revolutionary Business in Disruptive Era. The two days symposium provides insight of the upcoming borderless economic in ASEAN and how to take benefit from the project management perspective, and as an applied tool for achieving business transformation. International and local speaker both from practitioners and academicians will share their knowledge, experience and state-of-the art of project management. The symposium is also an opportunity for companies to meet project managers seeking career transition and matching the interests, skills, and experience to their needs.

Please click here for registration information: https://pmi-indonesia.org/symex/howtoregister.html

The PROJECT GENERAL COMPANY (www.project-general.com) is a project management consulting and project management training firm in Indonesia.

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In Indonesia, where the PROJECT GENERAL COMPANY (www.project-general.com) , manages projects, we see significant growth in the Project Management Profession and a need for increased education and networking.

To help foster the growth as of Project Management as a profession, the The PROJECT GENERAL COMPANY Jakarta, is a Sponsor of #SYMEX2019 in Bali, Indonesia March 13, 24, 2019.

#SYMEX2019 (https://pmi-indonesia.org/symex/)  is the Largest Project Management Symposium and Exhibition in Indonesia.  The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum for industry professionals, business owners, educators, researchers, policy-makers and graduate students with opportunity to explore and discuss issues in project management topics. This year’s theme will be Revolutionary Business in Disruptive Era. The two days symposium provides insight of the upcoming borderless economic in ASEAN and how to take benefit from the project management perspective, and as an applied tool for achieving business transformation. International and local speaker both from practitioners and academicians will share their knowledge, experience and state-of-the art of project management. The symposium is also an opportunity for companies to meet project managers seeking career transition and matching the interests, skills, and experience to their needs.

Please click here for registration information: https://pmi-indonesia.org/symex/howtoregister.html

The PROJECT GENERAL COMPANY (www.project-general.com) is a project management consulting and project management training firm in Indonesia. The PROJECT GENERAL COMPANY project management selected client portfolio is here: https://project-general.com/client-portfolio/

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