Lean Coffee is a five-step meeting format: create a board with To Discuss, Discussing, and Done columns, brainstorm topics silently for five minutes, vote with three dots per person, rank by votes, then discuss in three-minute rounds with quick re-votes to continue or move on.
Lean Coffee. It's a fantastic approach for facilitating effective and collaborative meetings, and you can do it in just five easy steps. Step 1 Create a visual board for managing the discussion topics. Give your board three to discuss, discussing and done. Step 2 Brainstorm the topics Start a timer for five minutes and ask participants to jot down any ideas for topics they want to discuss. One idea per post it note step 3 pick your favorites when the timers run out, each participant will place a dot on the topics that they want to discuss. Each person gets three dots. They can put them all on one topic or split them up how they like. Step 4 rank the topics, Tally up the dot votes and rank the subjects in order of popularity. Discuss select the topic with the most votes and ask the author to provide some context for the discussion. Then set a timer for three minutes and open the floor to discuss. When the timer runs out, participants will vote on whether to keep discussing that topic for three more minutes or end the discussion and move on to the next subject. And that's it. That's how you run a Lean Coffee session. A simple and effective technique for facilitating engaging meetings. If you guys liked what you saw here, head on over to Kairise.com and check out Agile Foundations. It's the world's first on Demand ICAgile Certified Professional Course.
