Learn how a project sprint can help you create impact in your industry.

1. Create impact with
Project Sprints

2. What is a
project sprint?

3. Also known as a design sprint
(but the term “design” tends to
mislead people)

4. Teams work through an entire
project from start to finish in a
short amount of time.

5. Using human centred design
techniques.

6. Project sprints help you quickly
learn about the potential of a
project that inherently contains
a lot of unknowns.

7. What are unknowns?
People get paralysed by
indecision because of what they
don’t know.

8. They prefer to stick to
incremental improvements
rather than really create impact.

9. Why?
Because there are too many
unknowns with ideas that are
game changing.

10. Unknowns are dangerous, they
are risky and they may make
you look bad.

11. But they are also the greatest
source of opportunity.

12. A project sprint helps you
explore opportunities and
unknowns with minimal risk.

13. How does a
project sprint
work?

14. There is a fluid framework to a
project sprint.

15. The framework provides
structure while also allowing you
to adapt to nearly any project or
situation.

16. Discover
Deliver
Develop
Rinse and Repeat.

17. Discover

18. Assumptions
We think that we know what
people want.

19. It’s amazing how many times we
are wrong.
I need “Y”.
We should
do “X”.
Especially about our customers.

20. Empathy is the key.

21. Get out there and talk to people.

22. Get under their skin.

23. Feel what they feel.

24. Gain a deep understanding of
what life is like for them.

25. “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my
life depended on the solution, I would spend
the first 55 minutes determining the proper
question to ask… for once I know the proper
question, I could solve the problem in less
than five minutes.”

26. Develop

27. Develop some great solutions to
solve the issues that you
discovered.

28. Build on ideas.
Go wild.
Defer judgement.

29. Deliver

30. Build a testable prototype.

31. Something that people can
interact with and experience.

32. Not a model.

33. Give it to users to test.

34. Use this opportunity to learn
even more about your users.

35. Rinse & Repeat

36. You have learnt a lot of great
stuff from the first few steps.

37. Now take what you have learnt
and repeat the process until you
have your final product – keep
on learning.

38. There are lots of tools and mini-steps
that you can use to help
you with the sprint.

39. You can apply project sprints to
a wide variety of projects.

40. New products.
Exploring how to improve
existing products.
Improving services, processes
and internal issues.

41. Go out there and give it a go.

42. Engage with your customers &
users.

43. Remember to learn, learn,
learn.

44. This is how you can create
impact.

45. Let’s connect.
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