How can you make an organisation healthier? Michael Pollan’s beautiful, simple rule for eating is: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Follow it and you’ll feel better, and so will the planet. When it comes to organisational health, we paraphrase his words. “Try new things. Not too many. Mostly sprints.” Why do we think…
Read MoreIntroducing: The Design Triple-Jump
The Shop runs design sprints, usually for clients who don’t follow an agile, ‘product management’ approach to their work. This is normal. Most organisations don’t usually solve problems by having small teams work with a single focus for five straight days. A reasonable number of our discussions about collaboration with potential new clients fail on…
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Getting a team together for five days
Note 1: This isn’t a post about the benefits of sprints. we make those clear elsewhere (and people really get it too!). It’s about the logistics, or the idea of the logistics, which people seem to find harder. Note 2: We’ll write a post about selling sprints to senior colleagues in due course (remember: quick,…
Read MoreHoly bat-sprints! It’s a fight!
A few weeks ago, Jonathan Courtney published “User research is overrated”, advocating in favour of the design sprint as a replacement for heavy upfront user research. The article got quite a bit of pickup and reaction (rightly and unsurprisingly, given the directness of the challenge to those who’ve spent years developing the approaches that have made…
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Limited offer: 99% discount
Typically, we offer sprints for £10,000 if you come to us. We’ll do them for £7,500 plus expenses if you need us to come you. Today though, we’re proud to announce a new pricing model for clients used to spending larger sums on the big management consultancies. It’s only slightly more complex than our normal pricing…
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