🚧 Avoid a shaky foundation for your Foundation Sprint. The new kid on the block is the Foundation Sprint, a two-day workshop by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky that helps teams: ✔️ Clarify their target customer ✔️ Define the problem they solve ✔️ Identify their value proposition and differentiators Naturally, product and innovation teams (and the consultants working with them) are eager to run Foundation Sprints—especially in large organizations. ⚠️ But here’s the problem: I’ve seen this play out before. The Design Sprint was a game-changer but it was poorly implemented in complex orgs. The same fate awaits the Foundation Sprint if teams don’t approach it the right way. Its simplicity is deceptive, and without the right setup, it won’t deliver the intended impact. That’s why I wrote this article—to help teams avoid the common traps and make Foundation Sprints actually work in large organizations. If you're planning to run a Foundation Sprint, read this first. 👉 Read article

As we've been reading the book "Click" by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, we decided to take it a step further—turning the insights into a practical Miro board and workshop recipe. If you haven’t read the book yet, no worries! This workshop gives you a clear, hands-on understanding of how to guide a team through 2 focused days of aligning on the right problem, identifying differentiators, and moving confidently towards a founding hypothesis. Check it out and let me know what you think—I’d love to hear your thoughts! https://www.designsprint.academy/free-templates/the-foundation-sprint-workshop-template

AI comes to design sprints — a human-centred approach enhanced by AI technology. Yesterday I was part of an exclusive group that got early access to Autodesigner, Uizard’s new AI prototyping tool. Although still in Alpha, the demo was impressive, and the potential is tremendous, so we are adding this capability to our design sprint training program. Prototyping is a critical part of the design sprint but can be challenging for teams that lack the necessary design skills or resources. It is also time-consuming, which can be a significant obstacle given the tight schedule in a design sprint. But now, with generative AI's help, teams can quickly create professional-quality prototypes with a simple text prompt. This will save them significant time and effort while empowering them to create prototypes that accurately represent the ideas they came up with during their workshops. Below is my quick effort of using Autodesigner to put together a quick prototype announcing that AI prototyping is now included in Design Sprint Academy’s training. It took me two minutes, and I am not a designer by any stretch of the imagination.

Hi! Next week I will start working with a company, facilitating OKR. They are a group of 30 people (managers and middle managers) and I would like to do some activity for us to get to know each other. What dou you recommend? Thank you! 💛

If a 🏃‍♀️Design Sprint takes a team from problem to solution in 1 week, how long do you think that the Problem 🔎Discovery/Definition phase should take?