The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations

© Mario E. Moreira 2017

Mario E. Moreira, The Agile Enterprise, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2391-8_13

13. Capturing Ideas with Lean Canvas

Mario E. Moreira¹ 

(1)Winchester, Massachusetts, USA

Paint a robust yet lean picture of an idea on a canvas to help those seeking to understand the idea and the value of the idea.

—Mario Moreira

When an idea flows into a company, there needs to be ways to express the idea in a meaningful yet concise way without bulk and extensive time commitment. Within an Agile context, limiting the amount of time spent on documenting the idea upfront is recommend since the idea has not yet been committed for work. In other words, why invest a lot of time into something that may not be worked on?

When you include too much information about ...