Lean Coffee Process
Lean Coffee
Variant with Choreography
Set Up
- X stations with limited numbers of chairs (up to 8)
- Flipchart per station, markers (optimally 1/person), sticky notes
Process
- (Optional A) Impromptu Networking - get people to know each other better [15min]
- Division into groups of 5-8 people [5min]
- Choosing topics [15min]
- Each person proposes a topic as a sticky note
- Similar topics are merged
- Everyone has 3 dots to vote
- 3 topics with the highest number of votes win
- (Optional B) Each team shares topics of their choosings [2min/team]
- Talks [60min]
- Topic is being conducted for 20 minutes
- (People may make notes on sticky notes, doodling, etc.)
- (Optional B) People can move to other tables (but limit per station should be preserved)
- The next topic gets addressed
- (Optional C) Summary [15min]
- Each person shares what was the most impactful for him during the lean coffee
Timing
Full (A+B+C) = ~2h
Optimal (B+C) = ~1h45
Minimum (with shortened talks to 15minutes) = 1h
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