Is there a guide for running Remote design sprints?
This is a guide for running remote Design Sprints: a realtime, online, video-based twist on the original recipe. This guide includes advice on tools, facilitation, and modified tactics, but it does not include a step by step explanation of the entire Design Sprint process. For that, we recommend the Sprint book! We know a lot about Design Sprints.
How do you prepare for a Remote Sprint?
Prepare snacks: In an in-person sprint, the facilitator makes sure food and caffeine are available. In a remote sprint, you’ll have to remind the team to be ready with something quick: “Tell participants to think ahead to what they might want for snacks and lunch and prepare these in advance.
How did IDEO handle a super complex remote design sprint?
Here’s how IDEO handled a super complex around-the-world remote sprint: “We ran a design sprint with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Hindustan Unilever, and The Better Than Cash Alliance focused on building a mobile application to digitize operations for over 100,000 shop owners in rural India.
What is a minder in a Remote Sprint?
This person should focus on the people, not the process, and reach out to anyone who’s not participating. “All of our remote sprints include a facilitator and a minder. The minder is the point of contact via chat, phone, and text and checks workspaces to see if any team members need help.
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Why are remote sprints better than other sprints?
Remote sprints are better if participants have two screens because they’ll be able to simultaneously see their teammates (on one screen) and the whiteboard (on the other), just like in real life. Most of us don’t use two screens all the time, but sometimes people have the right hardware if you ask. They can use a laptop and external monitor, two laptops, or a laptop and iPad.
What do you need for a remote sprint?
First, video conferencing to keep everyone in sync during group activities. Second, a virtual whiteboard app that will become your shared brain for the sprint. And third, a team discussion board for communication throughout the week.
How many whiteboards are needed for sprint?
In Sprint, we recommend using a room with at least two whiteboards. These whiteboards are essential, because they’re a shared visual record of everything that happens in your sprint. It’s impossible to have too much whiteboard space. Stopping the sprint to take photos, erase, and redraw the board is not a huge deal, but it’s best if you can just keep moving while preserving all the work you’ve done so far.
What is the importance of prepping for a remote design sprint?
Prep work is especially important for a remote Design Sprint, so this section of our guide is especially long 🤓 There’s a lot to do: you need to choose and build comfort with new software tools, and you need to prepare the people who will be in your sprint. Design Sprints always seem a little weird compared to regular work, but a remote sprint? It will seem extra weird, and it can go off the rails if you aren’t ready.
How long is Michael Margolis' research sprint?
We suggest you follow Michael Margolis’s 4-Day Research Sprint process for recruiting customers, planning your interviews, and testing your prototype. Here’s something cool: Very few modifications are required to do this remotely! In fact, a majority of our customer tests with Michael (when we worked together at GV) were done online.
When did Jake and JZ start designing sprints?
We know a lot about Design Sprints. Jake created the Design Sprint in 2010, and together Jake and JZ ran hundreds of sprints, perfected the tactics and process, wrote the bestselling Sprint book, and trained thousands of people on running their own sprints.
Do time zones line up in sprints?
Time zones don’t always line up, and video chat can be exhausting. So we recommend that you do some of the individual sprint activities, well, individually. (We’ll explain that a lot more below.)