At Roots 2012 in Bergen, Norway, Ivana Gancheva, Matt Barcomb and I ran a half-day tutorial on LeanProcrastination. This page contains all the material we used, plus some additional information.

Presentation

The prezi we used:

Full Module Description

The document we created to prepare the session is on gdocs. Use it if you want to understand the structure of the 4Cs that we used (see below for the book on Training from the Back of the Room).

To re-run the tutorial, you will need the Towering Options game description and the Real Options handout.

Links

The history of LeanProcrastination and bits of explanation of how Olaf organises his work.
Some thoughts on the Last Responsible Moment mindset.

Implications of my thinking on some established business concepts:

• Project
• Change

Real Options

The original article by the Real Options evangelists Olav Maassen and Chris Matts. After five years, the thoughts as they’re phrased there (for instance the finance maths—RO as I use it is not about money and calculation at all, the “optimal decision process”—which I don’t think exists) can be misleading or even irritating (if you think that basing every decision on money earned is an unethical idea).

I started a new series on Real Options on this blog, starting here.

Chris and Olav are writing a graphic novel, “Commitment” about Real Options, Ivana and Olaf are involved in the translation. There’s an inteview on the book on InfoQ.

Books

Some of the material we used can be
Drive by Daniel Pink was the basis for our middle module about motivation at work. The book is summarised in the RSA video which is included in the prezi.

Lean Startup by Eric Ries gave us the term validated learning. Almost all the quotes from the concept part of the validated learning module are quotes from the chapter on Learning of this book. Highly recommended!

 Training from the Back of the Room describes how to design a training using the 4Cs: Connection, Concept, Concrete Practice, Conclusions. If you liked the way we structured the training into modules and exercises, this book explains the why and how.