Lean Portland

E25: Lean for Community Projects with Maria Grzanka, Dominic Stokes and Matt Horvat

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Show Notes

At the 2023 Lean Global Connection virtual conference held in late November, Maria Grzanka, Dominic Stokes and Matt Horvat share their experiences setting up and participating within Lean Portland.

They discuss project examples of teaching Lean to nonprofits in the Portland area, and what they learned and benefitted from those experiences. There is also a video of the presentation you can watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwoRBFyN8_8

There were numerous presentations provided during this event, so you can check out all of them in the links below.

Links

Lean Global Connection 2023

Video of this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwoRBFyN8_8

All presentations from the LGN event (2023)

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