Google Design Sprint: Solve big problems and test new ideas in five days

Phases within the Sprint

The Google Design Sprint is organised into five phases: Map, Sketch, Decide, Prototype, and Test. The process does not change regardless of the whether you do a three- or five-day Sprint, just the amount of time allocated to each phase is changed.

What are the benefits?

• Speed – within three-five days you’ll move from idea to prototype to user testing and decision.
• Cost – save countless hours of time from too many internal meetings. Save money with reducing the time needed with an agency to define and design the solution. No endless rounds of iterations over several weeks!
• Stakeholder engagement – the key stakeholders are part of the Sprint and therefore co-defining the output. This reduces time and increases engagement. The follow up business case is then easier to get signed off!

Further information and reading

Please do get in touch with me if you’d like to know more about how a Sprint might work for your fundraising idea. We have run and contributed to a number of Sprints now to define new fundraising products, websites or digital products for charities. We also run Sprint overview workshops so we would be happy to invite you to a future workshop. They are free for charities to attend.  Just email us on hi@addition.london A good resource for running sprints: designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/ Jake Knapp also wrote a book called Sprint: www.thesprintbook.com/