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Sprint

By: Jake Knapp,John Zeratsky,Braden Kowitz
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Summary

Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day. How should you be focusing your efforts? What will your idea look like in real life? How do you start? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you've got the right solution? Now there's a surefire way to answer these important questions: the sprint.

Created by three partners at Google Ventures, the sprint is a unique five-day process aimed at helping businesses to answer crucial questions and deliver the best results in the least time, allowing the businesses to move on to the next level. It's a 'greatest hits' of business strategy, innovation, behaviour science and design thinking - packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.

Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google, where sprints were used on everything from Google Search to Chrome to Google X. With John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz at Google Ventures, the team has run more than 100 sprints with start-ups across all kinds of business, including mobile, e-commerce, health care and finance.

Sprint is about arming your business with a process to get problems solved by short-circuiting the endless debate cycle, avoiding groupthink and utilising the people, knowledge and tools that every team already has. It's for companies or groups of any size, from small start-ups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits - anyone who has a big opportunity, problem or idea and who needs to get started.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2016 Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (P)2016 Random House AudioBooks

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  • 09-01-18

Not ideal for the audio book format

While the topic isn't anything new, seeing examples of how sprints can be used to solve problems was very interesting. The problem, I found, was that it's more of a reference on running a sprint and for that the physical book would be more helpful. There were frequent lists, timetables and tools to use. In an audio
Io book format these were hard to follow. You'd probably need to by the book as well.

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Ok, if you can suffer the google talk

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The idea of a sprint is good and the scrum people have been using it for a good while now. The authors of this book claim their definition of sprint is different but I can't see a whole lot of difference, apart for the insufferable google hype. People who work for that company come across as the most corporate-indoctrinated folks in the world. Its really tedious to listen to and it ruins the book in my opinion.

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Amazing!

A truly great new system. If you like building things and the Lean Startup this book will fit right in.

Stop wasting time and use this system to test assumptions quickly.

Highly Recommended

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Patronising

Nothing innovative in here. Just insulting junk about how to use post it notes etc.

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Design sprint fanatics

I found this enlightening and encouraging I hope use the techniques at work and gain buy in from my peers and colleagues.

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Great tool

Make faster progress with your product. The Sprint process feels like the minimum loveable framework for accelerating design decisions. A must for ambitious product teams.

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It’s such a rush

As a How-To guide, this is a useful tool to get you started packed with great advice. It is a little formulaic in its approach but does suggest, like a baker, that we stick to the recipe before we start modifying the ingredients. We will certainly use many of the approaches listed in here - but not all sprints are the same - some require greater soak time to allow for learning not just outcomes.

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This book is intended for kids

The book is too symplistic, full of trust me am an expert do it this exact way, repeat every peace of information 5 times, it feels like it's written to brain dead people. And boy the writer is more focused about hyping the sprint than explaining how it works.

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A good listen, recommend for product dev teams

The content of this book is good and well framed, and whilst some of the concepts are not ground breaking, they force them into a clear structure to follow.

I found I needed to listen at 1.5x speed for a good pace, and some content was a bit repetitive (audio version could drop the last two chapters), but overall a good listen.

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Amazing book & method. For women only apparently!

5 star but I find it VERY frustrating that all the anonymous roles in this are presented as "she". E.g. "The decision maker, ... she decides", "the product designer, .... she can ...". Over and over again! Mix it up, or use "they".

You'll note that the 3 authors are all men, maybe they need a mirror before preaching an all women message to the rest of us! It distracts from the method and is relentless. 20 years ago it would have cool, trendy and thought provoking. Now it is just irritating and preachy.

Get past that, and there is REAL GOLD here!

I am in IT, use agile, work on product, have an MBA, keep up on things (generally) but think the ideas in this are gold. PLUS it is practical and instructive, not just "floaty in the clouds". It is anti-group think, which is great!

I havent finished this yet, but I think it is my favorite audio book now. Don't let the cover put you off. It put me off, which is probably why I ignored it until a sale came up. Now I feel slightly guilty that I got it at such a good price!

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