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

To start the conversation, ask your team this question: “Why are we doing this project? Where do we want to be six months, a year, or even five years from now?”

The sprint is GV’s unique five-day process for answering crucial questions through prototyping and testing ideas with customers.

As humans, our short-term memory is not all that good, but our spatial memory is awesome.

What questions do we want to answer in this sprint?

On Monday, she can share her perspective on the problem. On Wednesday, she can help choose the right idea to test. And on Friday, she should stop by to see how customers react to the prototype.

Imagine we travel into the future and our project failed. What might have caused that?

The Decider should have been in the room.

Your map should have from five to around fifteen steps. If there are more than twenty, it’s probably too complicated.

To meet our long-term goal, what has to be true?