Lean Coffee

Michael de la Maza

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Lean Coffee is a simple and easy-to-facilitate structure for meetings. Participants begin the meeting by creating the agenda. Then each topic is discussed in priority order using short timeboxes.

Where did 'Lean Coffee' come from?

Lean Coffee was created by Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith in 2009 in Seattle.
Lean Coffee works best with groups of 10 people or less.
It is designed to be easy to facilitate.

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Michael de la Maza

Agile Coach @ Heart Healthy Scrum @ Heart Healthy Scrum

Michael de la Maza is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) based in San Francisco. He is the co-founder of Demingway.com and the co-editor of the "Best Agile Articles" book series. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT.

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