We just published a new article about a tool we’ve been using more and more at Design Sprint Academy — especially before running a sprint. It’s called the 4U Workshop. Its result: the MVO — Minimum Viable Opportunity. In just 2 hours, it helps senior stakeholders compare and score real challenges using four lenses: 🔸 Unworkable 🔸 Unavoidable 🔸 Urgent 🔸 Underserved The outcome is focus. A shared decision on what’s most worth solving next — before the team jumps into solutions. If you’re facilitating sprints or guiding strategy, this is one of the fastest ways to reduce risk and align fast. 📩 Read the article: https://www.designsprint.academy/blog/what-is-the-mvo-minimum-viable-opportunity 📦 Or get the full 4U Workshop Kit + AI co-pilot to run this tomorrow.

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

Once the Foundation Sprint launched, we had many questions about how it differed from the methods we already used, like Problem Framing and Design Sprints. So, I wrote a detailed article on this topic: 👉 Read article

Jake Knapp’s new book Click is getting a lot of hype—and it’s sparking big questions: 🤔 How does the Foundation Sprint compare to Problem Framing? 🤔 When should you use one over the other? There’s so much curiosity around this topic that we’ve decided to open up the discussion in our next webinar "Foundation Sprint & Problem Framing - When to Do What" on March 11, 5:00 PM CET / 4:00 PM GMT / 8:00 AM PST. Join us at Design Sprint Academy as we break it down, share insights, and answer your questions.

🚧 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