Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Written by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz
Narrated by Dan Bittner
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About this audiobook
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.
Editor's Note
Expert solutions…
This bestseller from Google alums teaches you how to focus your attention and efforts to solve problems big and small in just five days using sprints. That means fewer meetings, fewer revisions, and faster solutions, so you can race to the top.
Jake Knapp
Jake Knapp created the Design Sprint at Google, where he also helped build Gmail, cofounded Google Meet, and was a design partner at GV. He has since coached hundreds of teams on product strategy at places like Miro, Slack, Nike, LEGO, IDEO, the Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business School. Today, Jake is a cofounder at Character, where he helps startups find product-market fit with Design Sprints.
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Reviews for Sprint
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5If I could rate this book 0 stars I would. It's for simpletons. Give us the steps to run a sprint, explain why they work, briefly, but do not talk to us about your trip to the store to buy new markers for the whiteboards in the sprint room. You're wasting my life.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I feel like they could have done a better job if they simply made half of the book about case studies exclusively. As they have more experience than most with high quality start ups. Overall they spend wayyyyy too much time talking about small details which may or may not hep people. Overall I would reccomend this to someone who is in charge of running meetings, but if that is not you I might go for a summary and read something more important instead.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The main idea is great and should be used everywhere, but the book looks rigid where it's kind of step by step instead of detailed thinking, this was the downside of the book for me
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A mindblowing book about prototyping and product testing.
Great Book! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Perfect for learning and executing great workshops to empower creativity
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best & most practical books I’ve ever listened to. I highly recommend it & suggest you implement its methodology
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For now, I will rate it 5 stars until I do a few sprint rounds myself.
First, the book is very interesting as it touches on different aspects of product design, including false signals (like users' reaction vs just their feedback). Second, every step of it feels well-tested and makes perfect sense.
The only reservation I have is about devoting full week to it and requiring 5 unbiased users for the test, but that is probably the price you need to pay for a great sprint! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Revolutionalize how you make decisions and how your team works together. Solve your problems creatively. This book is great!