Sprint

How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

By: Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

From inside Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at thousands of companies in mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, and more.

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?

Now there’s a surefire way to answer these important questions: the Design Sprint, created at Google by Jake Knapp. This method is like fast-forwarding into the future, so you can see how customers react before you invest all the time and expense of creating your new product, service, or campaign.

In a Design Sprint, you take a small team, clear your schedules for a week, and rapidly progress from problem, to prototype, to tested solution using the step-by-step five-day process in this book.

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 can replace the old office defaults with a smarter, more respectful, and more effective way of solving problems that brings out the best contributions of everyone on the team—and helps you spend your time on work that really matters.

Download the accompanying reference guide.

©2016 Jake Knapp (P)2016 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Great for PM's

This is a great book for any project manager, but if you're not, it's still a great read. The author gives specific details on how to get your projects up to speed.

Something to start right away

This book is easy to follow. If had great examples and there are plenty of things that may start right away to work more efficiently and creatively. Is a must read on my opinion!

A bit of repetition

They tend to repeat themselves alot, which lost my attention, but there was a lot of good information.

Full of great ideas!

I loved reading this book, not only for the background on design sprints, but also for the hundreds of little nuggets interspersed throughout the book. There's so much good information in here, much of it backed up by oh my experience, that it really is the kind of thing that everybody in business should read.

Excellent for anyone on a software product team

Loved this book. Very well thought out ideas. I'm looking forward to implementing everything that was suggested. I'd definitely recommend.

Great presentation of the material.

This “revised” sprint process could make a significant difference in product development.

I was very pleased with the format of the book. It was presented in a logical step by step approach with examples of both successes and failures mixed in as necessary to provide clarity.

I definitely recommend this book!

Great guide how to evaluate your ideas efficiently, economically.....

Wished have read this before started my company, would safes a lot of time and energy
Bijan Chansari
CEO
Spicely Organics

Excellent!! Thank you!!

An exceptional playbook for getting the right things done on work that improves lives. Small acts, HUGE impacts! Thank you!!

Great Advice, But It's All Old News

If your not already familiar with old concepts like, The Lean Startup, Agile Product, Development and User Testing, then this is going to be a great book for you.

But for many of us this book will provide No new information. It's a standard week long sprint ending in some user testing of your prototype, the same stuff that's been preached from the mountain tops for the last 5 years. The authors provide a lot of detail around how to run the sprints, which is nice, but for the most part I was anxious to wrap this book up and move on to something new.

To be clear, if you are Not super familiar with the concepts I mentioned above, then I would Highly recommend this book. The content is absolutely true and this book is a good, albeit basic, summary of the principles needed for rapid, low-cost product development.

Much better than expected!

This book is much better than expected! It's practical, with plenty worksheets (on the Sprint book website) and contains clear, helpful directions based on Jake's experience working with this.

The sprints are like a mix of scrum and design thinking. Leaning more towards the latter.

Some have remarked the book is full of Google-talk. I didn't feel that way at all. They mention Google a few times, but it's never obnoxious or distracting at any level.