It is now easier for attendees to go straight to the audio conference for a Lean Coffee session,  straight from the board. This will save you having to send to links to everyone.  Just send them the board link and they can join the audio meeting from there.

 Step 1 – Facilitator clicks button to enter the conference details

Step 2 – Paste in the URL to the conference session e.g. Zoom, Skype or Google Meeting

 

Step 3 – Attendees can join the conference call directly from the board

 

You can now invite people directly to a Lean Coffee session as a guest.

All they need to do is:
– Go to the URL
– Enter their name
– Join the meeting as a full participant.

There is no need for the person to register or provide their email address.

This is good for spontaneous sessions, one-off meetings or larger gatherings.

How to get the shareable guest URL

If you are the facilitator, just click on ‘Copy URL’ and send to invitees or include it in a meeting invite.

You will see the screen above when you create a new board or by clicking on this ‘gear’ icon on an existing board.

 

 

 

New Features

We have recently added these features to Lean Coffee Table:

Save a Session Summary

Add/Export Actions

Multiple Facilitators

 

Which new features do you want to see?

• Please suggest a new feature or vote on the ones we have already planned

Save a session summary

• You can now save a permanent record of your Lean Coffee Session in .pdf format
• At the end of the session the facilitator can write a brief overview before pushing the ‘Create Session’ button.
• The Session summary includes
  • A list of all the topics that were suggested, the person who suggested them and the votes received
  • Which topics were discussed
  • Actions recorded against each topic
  • The people who attended the session

 This video summarises the new Save Session functionality

 

 

Add and Export Actions

• Enables the facilitator to add action to the topic in the discussing column.
• More than one action can be added to the topic.  Actions can be reviewed and deleted.
• At the end of the session the facilitator can export the actions as a .csv file, to be opened in Excel

This video shows the new Actions functionality

Multiple Facilitators

• Each board can have more than one facilitator.
• Each facilitator needs to have been previously named within your ‘Coffee Club’ when you upgraded your subscription to ‘Espresso’ or above.

After two years of providing Lean Coffee for free, we’ve decided we need to take it to the next level in order to continue to meet our users’ needs and ambitions for this effective way to stimulate conversations and surface insights within organisations.

We have some great global clients as well as small ad-hoc teams and we appreciate you all, for your positive feedback and suggested enhancements.

In order to fund this development, we have decided that we need to charge something for LCT.  There will always be a free (advert supported) version of LCT. However, you will now have the option to add enhanced features to your subscription.

We have a list of new functionality that we will be adding to LCT in the weeks ahead and we want you to help us prioritise our backlog below, where you can vote for your favoured features and add any that we not have thought of yet.

Ideas for you to help us prioritise

Multiple facilitators per board

• The facilitator can nominate someone else to facilitate the session on a specific board.

Save a session summary

• Enables the facilitator to download a summary of a session, probably as a .pdf, that includes; all the topics discussed, who was at the session, the actions and a session overview written by the facilitator.

Export actions

• Facilitator can export actions from a session as a .csv file.
• Or export directly into JIRA
  • Note: this is already in the JIRA marketplace – https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.ripplerock.leancoffeetable/cloud/overview

De-duplicate topics in the ‘To discuss’ column

• Enable facilitator to combine 2 or more topics into one new topic – and keep links to the predecessor topics.

Pre-prepared topics

• Ability to create an existing list of topics that can be used to pre-populate a new session.

Duplicate a board

• Create a new board based on an existing board

Customise to your corporate colours and logo

• This can help LCT sit more naturally within your corporate identity. Here are some examples