Lean startup training in MelbourneTest the bet before you fund it.
A lean startup and product sprint for Melbourne teams who need a cheap test, real evidence and a decision to kill, pivot or scale.
- Melbourne, in person or hybrid
Melbourne
Evidence before the Melbourne business case gets thicker
Melbourne companies are fluent in the business case and late to the customer. This sprint is for a team with a live bet and a sponsor who is allowed to kill it. Collective Campus has run the one-day version with a cross-functional Sportsbet team so people without a startup background could name assumptions, prototype and decide.
We deliver that same format in Melbourne, in your office or a room in the city, or hybrid on Australia East hours. You bring the idea. We will not spend the day on a canned startup story. You leave with a test that fits the resources you already have.
- Sportsbet put a cross-functional team through a one-day lean startup workshop with Collective Campus: assumptions, prototypes and a pivot-or-proceed call.
- The Melbourne session uses that format on a bet you bring, in person or hybrid on Australia East hours.
- For innovation, venture and product teams, plus the sponsor who has to fund or stop the work.
- Client marks and quotes on this page are the national ones. We do not invent a local testimonial.
The problem
Big bets. Long roadmaps. No idea if it'll work.
Betting blind
Months of build committed before a single customer has weighed in.
Sunk-cost creep
Nobody wants to kill the project everyone's already spent on.
Feedback too late
You only find out it missed once it's shipped, the most expensive time to learn.
What you'll walk away with
By the end of the sprint, your team will have
- Your riskiest assumptions surfaced and ranked
- An MVP or prototype built to test the biggest one
- Real signal from real customers, not internal opinion
- A clear go / pivot / kill decision, backed by evidence
- An experiment backlog and a Build-Measure-Learn cadence to keep running
What we cover
The shape of the sprint
- 01
Map the assumptions
Everything that has to be true for the idea to work.
- 02
Find the riskiest
Rank by impact × uncertainty, test the one that could sink you first.
- 03
Design the test
The smallest experiment that gives a real answer.
- 04
Build the minimum
Just enough to learn, nothing more.
- 05
Run it & decide
Get it in front of customers, read the signal, make the call.
Who it's for
Who should be in the room
Product teams
Squads with a big feature or bet they haven't validated.
Founders & intrapreneurs
Anyone about to sink real money into an unproven idea.
Innovation units
Teams who need to show evidence, not just activity.
Melbourne
Questions about running this in Melbourne
Can the product sprint run in person in Melbourne?
Yes. At your Melbourne office or a room in the city, or hybrid on Australia East hours when a sponsor joins from elsewhere. Collective Campus is based in Melbourne.
Who should bring the idea?
Innovation, venture and product teams in Melbourne who have a live bet, and the sponsor who can kill it. Sportsbet used the one-day format so people with no startup background could test assumptions and decide. Bring your own idea. We will not use a case study.
How do we book the Melbourne sprint?
Use the contact form. Tell us the bet, who must be in the room and whether you need one day or a longer sprint. We will scope it from that.
Is this a talk about startups?
No. You leave with a test you can run with what you already have, and criteria the room agrees on: kill, pivot or scale.
our case studies
Inkeros
Two-day lean design sprint in Toronto. The team left with one prioritised, evidence-backed direction.
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AGL
Full-day lean startup training for the retail team, covering the lean canvas, assumptions and prototypes.
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Metlife
Ads and landing pages tested the customer, the problem and the business model. MetLife pivoted on that evidence.
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NPS Medicinewise
One-day rapid prototyping course for over 30 people, using lean startup methods.
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Sportsbet
One-day lean startup workshop for a cross-functional team with no startup background. Assumptions, prototypes, and a pivot or proceed call.
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Standard Chartered
Half-day lean startup course for a Hong Kong team, on using it inside a regulated bank.
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Water Corporation
Two-day workshop for the product and innovation team on lean startup in a regulated public body.
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Testimonials
What teams say afterwards
“The effects of the lean startup bootcamp that Sportsbet employees took part in are still being felt over a year later. Bootcamp participants are questioning things, running lean experiments where they're not sure of the answers and moving faster to get better results.”
“CC's team learned from real-time analytics and made changes accordingly in order to help us maximise learnings and get closer to identifying what the market wants before investing time and money building out and executing on a business case.”
“Steve is an engaging presenter with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the Lean Startup method.”
Facilitator
Steve Glaveski
Founder of Collective Campus, 2× Wiley author and HBR contributor. Steve has incubated 100+ startups and shaped the innovation strategies of 100+ global corporations, and he runs these sprints himself.
Ready to back the right bet?
Tell us the idea, we'll shape a sprint around it.