SPRINT WEEKHOW TO SOLVE BIG CHALLENGES AND TEST

IDEAS IN JUST 5 DAYS

Michal Polačko, Sep

2016

Enter new markets

Find new revenue streams

Find new customers

Design new products

Develop new features

Solve process obstacles

Define marketing or sales

strategies

And much more…

Graphics by Heath Sadlier

With the Sprint Week you can shortcut

the endless-debate cycle and compress

months of time into a single week.

5-day process for answering

critical business questions

through design, prototyping, and

testing ideas with customers.

You’re gonna build & test

realistic prototype in 5 days.

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6-8 people

1 decision maker

1 moderator

TEAM

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8

BUSINESS CHALLENGECONNECT WHAT WITH WHY

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MAKE A MAPSIMPLE DIAGRAM WITH AROUND 5-15 STEPS

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PICK A TARGETCHOOSE A CUSTOMER TYPE AND FOCUS ON

THE MAP

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ASK THE EXPERTS

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13

GROUP BRAINSTORMING DOES

NOT WORK!

INTRODUCING DESIGN STUDIO

People from various areas & with

different experience

Even 20-30 people can join

Big amount of concepts

Active discussion

We split to groups (i.e. 4 people)

Mixed parties in every group

We work in iterations

Work alone, then within group, then all

together

Everyone can sketch!

HOW IT WORKS?

Sketch alone

5 minutes

Split paper to 4

parts

Four concepts

1

Everyone

presents in

his/her team

1 min present

1 min questions

Design

Present

Sketch alone

5 minutes

Improve concepts

Steal from others

2

Everyone

presents in

his/her team

1 min present

1 min questions

Design

Present

Whole team

works together

20 minutes

Democratic

approach

3

Whole team

presents to other

teams

10 min present

10 min questions

Design

Present

All together

Good concepts

Bad concepts

Worth to try

4Post-mortem

Your sketches will look like this:

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YOU’LL MAKE FAST DECISIONS

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STICKY DECISIONChoose the best sketches in a silent review,

structured critique and with dot voting technique.

TURN THE WINNING SKETCHES

INTO A STORYBOARD

Think forward how you are going to measure success…at the end of sprint week… but even after the development when it is live.

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REALISTIC FAÇADE IS ALL

YOU NEED TO LEARN FROM

CUSTOMERS

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Customer interviews will reveal big patterns.

At the end of the week, you’ll know what to do next.

If you do 3 sprints in a row…

FM T W T FTWT FT

…they won’t all take 5 days.

Thank you.Any questions?

Michal Polačkohttps://cz.linkedin.com/in/michalpolacko

–Steve Jobs

“IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE

TO HIRE SMART PEOPLE

AND THEN TELL THEM

WHAT TO DO; WE HIRE

SMART PEOPLE SO THEY

CAN TELL US WHAT TO DO”