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1 hour sprint demo / workshop
Hello, I am hosting a Round Table on the Sprint process to our internal UX teams and am looking to do a mini workshop to make the session more engaging and also demo the process at a high level. Has anyone done anything similar? Interested to hear what you did / how you structured the session and what kind of problems / challenges you looked at. Thanks so much!
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@Imogen Brickman have you already seen the Lightning Decision Jam exercise from AJ&Smart ? (https://go.ajsmart.com/ldj) This is a rapid 1 hour exercise to experience the Design Sprint process with a team. For this exercise, you can use a topic like "How might we improve our weekly meetings ?" or "How might we better use the collaboration tools at our disposal ?" for instance. LDJ allows to see phases like "understanding and prioritizing problems", "ideation", "prioritizing solutions" and "action plan creation". I also agree with @Chefrany Laitenu, depending on the outcomes you are expecting, you may also want to adjust the workshop and topic.
Continued Design Sprints
Hi fellow facilitators šŸ‘‹ Recently I have run some continued design sprints, which were building on the initial, more broad design sprint. Although I made some adaptations to the exercises and shortened particularly some of the first day (HMW, make a map), two of the participants gave me the feedback that they wished we could have just gone straight into the sketching. I gladly accepted the feedback and said I would consider this for future continued design sprints. My brief reasoning on why I did not get rid of these exercises was: - Since there were two new group members and the initial sprint week dated more than 2 months back, I felt it was necessary to reiterate our goals, our sprint questions and perform the HMW. - Also, I somehow feel this breaks people away from their initial thinking and opens the mindset for a different style of work. What are your experiences on continued design sprints? Do you tweak exercises and if yes, which? How would you respond to this feedback? Looking forward to the community exchange šŸ˜ŠšŸæ
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I'm not sure what you're talking about when you talk about continued Design Sprints, but if you had identified several critical topics to be addressed in the first sprint, it might be a good idea to refresh the participants' memory on what topic will be addressed in each sprint. However, the map should not have evolved since the first sprint, except that you have started to solve the identified challenges. The HMWs should also not have changed much. On the other hand, it may be a good idea to redo the sprint questions exercise because the focus of each sprint may be different. The important thing is to make sure that the ideas that will be put forward respond to the challenge that is being addressed in the sprint.
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@Stefan Bebie Oh ok I see ! Depending on the type of project you are working on, in addition to end-of-sprint user testing, you may also want to test the product or service over a longer period between sprints for example. In this case, the first day of the next sprint will be used to synthesize the learnings from the experimentation carried out between the sprints and to make choices about the next work topic. šŸ˜‰
Creative confidence
Hi facilitators šŸ‘‹šŸ¼ have you ever heard about creative confidence ? If so give me your thoughts about it šŸ˜
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New comment Feb '23
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I join the positive opinions on this book of the Kelley brothers. For me this book is a fundamental about Design Thinking and a bit like @Jonathan Courtney, it is one of the first that made me want to help companies to unleash their confidence in the creativity of their teams.
Best whiteboard to for remote workshops?
Hello facilitators! šŸ‘‹ For remote facilitation, do you use Miro, Mural, or Figma and why? Do you create templates in all of them? Or do you stick to one? I have realized I am creating different boards across all 3 and think it might be best to consolidate to one. šŸ¤” Hope this post can also shed light on best practices for everyone when choosing !
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New comment Aug '23
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I also prefer Miro because it is easier to use and offers a wide variety of useful functions for animation (timer, voting, wireframing, etc...) and the available templates are very numerous. Also note that Miro can be used directly from Google Meet (in the Activities section of your Google Meet session).
Agile sprints vs design sprints
Hi guys, hoping to draw on some of your experience. I'm new to facilitation and learning the design sprint. I'm doing well at talking about the design sprint and there seems to be some buy-in. However, our organization is highly technical (some seriously big brains) and we have an internal set up called "Digital Factory" which they are using for acceleration of transformation. Admittedly, focused on the digital aspect. They are using agile sprints. My question: What is the real difference between a design sprint and an agile sprint? And how can I highlight to my colleagues that it could be worth doing design sprints up front in the innovation process? I do understand that agile is more of a downstream process. So, I guess, does anyone have experience with what teams start from in an agile setting? Use cases for example... Looking forward to your comments / thoughts. Thanks
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Hi @Kat Mather ! I would of course recommend to have a look at the video AJ&Smart made on this topic šŸ˜ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrhp2cEtNjc&ab_channel=AJ%26Smart). Obviously, Design Sprint are really made to help teams generate ideas and validate them quickly in order to start development cycles (using Agile sprints) with more certainty. Having already exchanged with agile sprint experts, the Design Sprint can be seen as the Sprint 0 of Agile, maybe you can sell it like this, that you are going to facilitate the first sprint of their agile process. The goal of Sprint 0 is to provide a solid foundation for the project, avoiding many potential future problems.
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Teddy Wilhelm Dillier
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Passionate facilitator for more than 4 years, working with Design Sprint, Design Thinking and Lean Startup. Looking forward to sharing with you!

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