Experience first-hand what team collaboration feels like in a Design Sprint.

• Learn a creative problem solving technique that can save you and your team a lot of time

• Get introduced into the world of design sprints and their applications

• Meet awesome people who can help you cut down development cost.

What’s the Sprint Meeting workshop about?

Like the title say’s: it is a hands-on introduction to the foundations of the design sprint process.

After the workshop you'll have a first grasp of the inner workings of a design sprint. And most of all, you’ve experienced first-hand how the design sprint exercises cut out all unnecessary discussions.

Workshop summary

• Brief introduction to the design sprint process
• The 4 design sprint principles explained
• Demonstration of some design sprint collaboration methods
• Q&A
• Drinks

Why does the design sprint process matter?

Innovation projects are costly and time consuming. Most projects move from ideating new solutions to building them, launching them and then learn from their users.

Many teams get trapped in the building phase. Deadlines are set and reset. Technical surprises and unexpected delays frustrate the team.

Projects can drag on and on until the team motivation reaches subzero levels.

Everybody engaged in innovation efforts knows by now the importance of validating assumptions as early as possible. But how to go about this, often remains the question?

Enter: the design sprint process

The design sprint process is a time effective and cheap answer to the how-question of assumption validation.

It enables a team to define a clear goal and learn from failure as soon as possible. And it takes less then a week to complete.

The process was originially invented by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz from Google Ventures. Google Ventures needed a cheap and efficient method to test the value propositions of the Startups they invest in.

In 2016 Jake, John and Braden published the book "Sprint". Since then, many companies big and small started to change the way they develop new products.

About the venue

This workshop is made possible by Creactor and WeWork. Here's how WeWork explains what WeWork does:

"WeWork is the platform for creators. We provide the space, community and services you need to create your life's work. To learn more about WeWork's spaces and memberships in Amsterdam, send an email to amsterdam@wework.com or call +31 20 808 1143."