Design Sprint
Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a Design Sprint with my colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and Denver Public Schools. Our goals were to learn more about the process as well as work through a problem we are trying to solve with our online curriculum customization service. But, we did not have time in everyone's schedules to take five full days, so we shortened it a bit. We did the first three days of the sprint in one and a half days instead of three full days. It was an intense day and a half and when we finished we realized that we did make progress, but that there is wisdom to having a full day for each step of the sprint. Tomorrow we will be reviewing the prototype (day 4) that our developers have worked on, we'll refine it, and then do some user testing (day 5). When we were finished Friday afternoon everyone was tired but re-energized at the same time as we had something that could be proto...