Lean Coffee guides
Practical guides for running Lean Coffee: the format, facilitation, remote sessions and topic ideas.
Lean Coffee: the complete guide
What is Lean Coffee? Learn the format, rules and agenda of a Lean Coffee meeting: topics, dot voting, timeboxes and Roman voting, plus tips to run a great one.
13 min readHow to facilitate a Lean Coffee: a step-by-step script
How to run a Lean Coffee, step by step: a 45- and 60-minute agenda template, an opening script to read out, fixes for common issues and a facilitator checklist.
10 min readHow to run a remote Lean Coffee (online and hybrid)
Run a remote Lean Coffee that actually works: tool options, a setup checklist, online voting and timeboxing, hybrid rooms, async topics and time zones.
9 min readLean Coffee vs. Retrospective: When to Use Which
Lean Coffee vs. retrospective: how they differ, a side-by-side comparison, when a Lean Coffee retro works best, how to run one, and pitfalls to avoid.
7 min read60 Lean Coffee topic ideas for teams
60 Lean Coffee topic ideas, phrased as real questions teams pitch: team health, process, product, tech, growth, leadership, remote work and icebreakers.
7 min read