Acquisition, Agile, Customer Development and Security

Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. The result is that legacy systems live on as an albatross and an impediment to making the country safer and more secure.

Government

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Hacking for Defense has teams of students working to understand and solve national security problems. This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. This was my sixth time teaching a virtual class during the lockdown – and for our students likely their 15th or more.

Lean

Lean Security Asia SBIR

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc.

Oakland

Oakland Asia Lean Video

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea. Team: Embargo NK.

Oakland

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. All while we’re still writing a Request for a Proposal from within the US Government procurement and acquisition channels.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects after this class. First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. What Were Our Goals for this Class?

Agile

Agile Security Audio Video

Fly High

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Unfortunately the class operates much like the military acquisition system: the project specification has minimal input from real world users, the product gets built with a waterfall engineering process, and there’s no input on whether the product actually meets real world needs until the product is delivered. We do what?

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects. Result : I’ll admit my hesitancy was because I brought my memories of U.S.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects. Result : I’ll admit my hesitancy was because I brought my memories of U.S.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean

Fly High

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Unfortunately the class operates much like the military acquisition system: the project specification has minimal input from real world users, the product gets built with a waterfall engineering process, and there’s no input on whether the product actually meets real world needs until the product is delivered. We do what?

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut

I’ve seen the Promised Land. And I might not get there with you.

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

To get to this Transition stage, the company needed passionate visionaries who can articulate a compelling vision, agile enough to learn and discover in real time, resilient enough to deal with countless failures, and responsive enough to capitalize on what they learned in order to secure early customers.

Agile

Agile Development Team Review Leadership Merger

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Watching them I was left with wonder and awe about what they accomplished in 10 weeks.

Southern California

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. No need to worry about security and such. s easier to use/develop with. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. Codeacademy.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations

Fly High

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Fly High

I’ve seen the Promised Land. And I might not get there with you.

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

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