Playing Lean Blog
Jan 20, 2020
How to maximise learning from Playing Lean workshops
If you finish your Playing Lean workshop when one of the teams reaches the red tile you are missing a big learning op...
Jan 13, 2020
How to use Business Model Canvas to model two sided marketplaces?
When you’re building a two sided marketplace business, you’re essentially building two businesses at the same time - ...
Jan 8, 2020
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, gam...
Dec 13, 2019
Serious games for teaching innovation
Board games are great at teaching innovation. They’re a lot more engaging and memorable than just a presentation. Her...
Nov 29, 2019
How Playing Lean Helped Launch 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 b...
Sep 23, 2019
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 st...
Aug 9, 2019
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...
Nov 6, 2018
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 ...
Jan 19, 2017
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.
Dec 6, 2016
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.
Oct 9, 2016
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 “practic...
Jul 10, 2016
Broadcast - The Story of Twitter
Even the birds up on the trees know that Twitter was launched in 2006 and that today it is one of the leading social networks worldwide with about 320 million active users. However, few of us know that Twitter was launched as a pivot of the podcasting company Odeo.