TLC Labs Hosts LeanUX NYC – April 2013
TLC Labs and Lean Startup Machine have partnered with NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation as well as Cyrus Innovation to create a three and a half day, curated conference...
View ArticleLeanUX Speaker Series: An Interview with Tomer Sharon
I was lucky enough to interview LeanUX NYC speaker, Tomer Sharon, currently Senior UX Researcher at Google, and an alum of last year’s AgileUXNYC conference. Tomer is the author of “It’s Our Research“...
View ArticleHow to build a ‘good enough’ corporate site in 3 weeks
If Dante had written the Inferno in the early days of the 21st century, Satan would have been found wallowing in the 9th circle, spearheading a corporate website redesign. There is perhaps no more...
View ArticleMeetings are not the problem
You don’t hate meetings because they are ineffectual, you hate them because they are hard work. Here’s the crux of the matter: collaboration between people happens… between people. Awesome people,...
View ArticleJabe Bloom selected as finalist for Brickell Key Award
(Note: If you have been influenced by Jabe’s work, please consider supporting him here.) We at TLC / TLCLabs are bursting with pride that our own Jabe Bloom has been selected as one of six finalists...
View ArticleAre there any “Lean Truths”?
I’ve been working for a while now, on and off, on a framework for what I’ve been calling the “lean doctrine.” I have an ethically-grounded expectation that if a bunch of us are willing to tell other...
View Article#LeanUX Speaker Salon: Kanban for Individuals & Teams
If it ain’t one thing It’s a mother!&@&# Other – Kanban for Individuals and Teams Thursday, April 25, 2013 [RSVP] Knowledge work is defined by friction. Every time you start something,...
View ArticleThe “Lean Strategy + Design” Book List
(Covering Lean systems, design, management, strategy, and innovation. Not fearing a good dose of discussion around ideas, theories, and how managers learn and try new things in their organization to...
View ArticleDesign Ethnography for Lean Teams by Will Evans
Design Ethnography for Lean Teams from Will Evans “What people say is not what people do” – CheskinThere has been a lot of hot air about “getting out of the building”, and “just go talk to customers”,...
View ArticleExperimentation & Innovation in Libraries: What We Can Learn from Lean Startups
Experimentation and Innovation in Libraries: What We Can Learn from Lean Startups by Simon Marcus & Will Evans Few industries face the kind of disruption that the library industry faces today with...
View ArticleIntroduction to Kanban for Creative Agencies
Introduction to Kanban for Creative Agencies from Will Evans This is an introduction to Kanban. Creative agencies, like most organizations that do knowledge work, are defined by the projects they...
View ArticleWhy Lean and Kanban Won’t Grow Like Scrum — And Why We Might Not Want to Fix...
I’ve become a regular attendee at bi-weekly meetup for kanban practitioners in NYC. Its attendance is small (7-10 people) but highly stable. Not that surprisingly, I’m the only C-level executive who is...
View ArticleSimon Marcus Presents “Concierge & Pitch MVP”
This is the presentation for the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge Edition / Lean Startup machine discussing “Concierge and Pitch MVP.” Concierge & Pitch MVP from Will Evans
View ArticleTLC Goes Inside the Design Studio
Walking into Will Evans‘ Design Studio workshop yesterday morning, many of us — myself included — had no idea what to expect. We knew we’d be exploring new options for TLC Kids, which is one of TLC’s...
View ArticleIntroduction to LeanUX Branding
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with a team of people on the TLCLabs branding and identity, which led me to think about the difference between traditional, big-bet, waterfall branding that...
View ArticleIn Defense of Ambiguity
Presentation for Lean Kanban Central Europe Vienna, October 22-23, 2012 The Kanban Method lists Core Property #4 as “Make Process Policies Explicit” How does explicit policy help us to evolve our...
View Article6 Smart Ways to Innovate Inside Your Corporate Culture
Recently, Jabe and Simon connected with another Lean product development leader, Teague Hopkins. Teague has over 15 years of design and technical experience, and is deeply interested in improving the...
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