Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?
A practical guide to answering critical business questions, Sprint is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It’s for anyone with a big opportunity, problem, or idea who needs to get answers today.
The key to success, often, is building the right habits. But which habits work best? Sprint offers powerful methods for hatching ideas, solving problems, testing solutions—and finding those small, correct habits that make all the right behaviors fall in place.
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Sprint its a method you can use to solve problems that have high stakes, not enough time, or you’re just plain stuck. Or you could use this method totes out a new business idea that you have.
Setup gather supplies, a team of less than 7 people and elect a decider. A decider is typically a person who is ultimately responsible for the outcome. Commonly the product manager or or CEO of a start-up.
Monday
Supplies
- Whiteboard
- post it notes
- markers
- dot stickers
Next, you need to schedule off 5 days in your calendar, from monday-friday. 10am-5pm, and lastly you need to set up 5 interviews with end users or target customers. These interviews will be conducted on Friday, the last day of the sprint.
- Create a map.
- Start with the end in mind and an optimistic outcome or long-term goal.
- List the actors in the story. These are the characters that you are trying to get your end results. (customers or people to facilitate the process)
- Fill in the gap by identifying what steps need to occur to get the actors to the end result. Use arrows and words.
- Bring in experts to see if the map looks right.
- Sequence of events– How might we? questions.
