You can now kick-off a Lean Coffee session from within a Slack channel.  Users can join the board from a link in the channel, using their Slack identity and authentication.

At the end of the session a .pdf Summary is posted back to the channel for a permanent record of the discussion.

To use Lean Coffee with Slack you need to:

1. Install the Lean Coffee Table application into your instance of Slack
2. Start Lean Coffee sessions from within Slack

 

Step 1 – Go to the Slack marketplace and install Lean Coffee

https://leancoffeetable.slack.com/apps/AC5RRA4N6-lean-coffee-table

Follow the steps which will vary, depending on whether you already have a LeanCoffeeTable.com account or not.

If you already have a LeanCoffeeTable Account

1. Login with your existing account information
2. Authorise LeanCoffeeTable.com to interact with Slack
3. … and start running your Lean Coffee sessions

If you do NOT have a LeanCoffeeTable account

1. Sign in with your Slack identity
2. Agree to the Terms and Conditions
3. Choose your plan, depending on how many Facilitators you wish to have running sessions
4. Authorise LeanCoffeeTable.com to interact with Slack
5. … and start running your Lean Coffee sessions

 

 

 

Step 2 – Create your first Lean Coffee session

Watch the video below for a more details on starting a session

From the Slack channel   Type /leanmeet <meeting name>

This will create a new session and board within LeanCoffeeTable.com

It will also put a link into the channel, enabling anyone to join by clicking on the ‘Go to Meeting’ button

At the end of the meeting the Facilitator can create a ‘Session Summary’ (.pdf), which is posted back into the channel

The Session Summary records all the; attendees, topics, actions, comments and a brief summary and looks like this.

Note: To create a session from Slack you need to already be a Facilitator within a ‘Coffee club’.
The Coffee Club was setup during the installation of Slack.  The person who set-up the Coffee Club is the ‘owner’ and they can invite people to join the club, as Facilitators.

Note: If you want a Lean Coffee session to exchange data with a Slack Channel, you will need to initiate the session from within the Channel – and not from LeanCoffeeTable.com

 

 

Anyone in the session can now add written comments to the topic that is being discussed.

Use comments to capture ‘aha’ moments during the discussion, post links to resources on the web or to record an important point.

Read and respond to other people’s comments as they are posted

The comments are recorded in the Session Summary .pdf, to be circulated after the meeting.

To add a comment, just start typing in the box under the topic being discussed

The latest comments are shown at the bottom of the scrolling list.

Note: Comments can only be added to topics in the discussing column.
To add comments to a ‘Discussed’ topic, you will need to move it back to the Discussing column.
Comments can not be edited or deleted.

You can paste in text or links to webpages

Links will open in separate tab.

Click on the arrow to see the comments, after the topic has been discussed

Comments are shareable and permanently recorded in the Session Summary .pdf

Many of you asked for this feature and we look forward to your feedback.