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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How would customer interviews work via video? See here for an extended discussion of remote customer discovery.).

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Second, this class – which is built on the idea of interviewing customers/beneficiaries and stakeholders in person – now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Oakland 301
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The Air Force Academy Gets Lean

Steve Blank

Graduation day with classmate Joseph Helton (right), killed in action in Iraq in 2009. The way our process worked, customers were just a stakeholder that provided input – not drivers of the process. We emphasize customer interaction via “getting out of the building” and rapid iteration through “cheap hacks”.

Lean 262
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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3

Steve Blank

faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.). faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we pointed out in previous class sessions, in the 20th century, requirements were known years ahead of time and the DoD built incrementally better versions of the same platforms. centric rules for war were built around known adversaries and technologies.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

.); we sent each team a critique of their mission model canvas; we started streaming the class live to DOD/IC sponsors and other educators; our advanced lecture explained how to go from concept to deployment in the DOD/IC; and we watched as the students got closer to understanding the actual problems their customers have. See slide 2.)

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

.); we sent each team a critique of their mission model canvas; we started streaming the class live to DOD/IC sponsors and other educators; our advanced lecture explained how to go from concept to deployment in the DOD/IC; and we watched as the students got closer to understanding the actual problems their customers have. See slide 2.)

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

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. Army as a special operations light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Oakland 266