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Case Study | May 14, 2018

Design Sprints for Rapid Requirements Acceptance

It was about six months ago when I first spoke to members of Apple’s IS&T team about their use of Design Sprints. I remember it…

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Design Sprints | May 7, 2018

Friends, Not Enemies

Design Sprints and the Agile process can work in perfect harmony. A common source of confusion around Design Sprints relates to the popularity of Agile development…

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Design Sprints | April 23, 2018

Essential Tips for Planning a Successful Design Sprint

As with almost anything in life, planning is essential. Design Sprints are no exception. Design Sprints are a 5-Day process development by Jake Knapp who…

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Facilitation | March 19, 2018

10 Practical Ways to Align Your Team

I’m passionate about alignment. Yup, alignment. It might not be the sexiest topic in the startup world, but it’s essential to success. (It’s the reason…

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Design Sprints | December 27, 2017

Your First Sprint is Practice

If you are an ice skater, you’ll remember that the first time you skated, you had to hold on to the railing to avoid falling.…

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Design Sprints | November 13, 2017

Design Sprint Resources & Planning Tools

All successful Design Sprints have one thing in common: solid planning. Design Sprints are fun and exciting, so it’s easy to get intoxicated by this…

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Design Sprints | October 21, 2017

Surprising insights from our first SPRINT: the value of negative feedback

I first learned about the Google SPRINT framework in early 2017 from Matt Randall, the founder of Twyla. Google Ventures (GV) funded Twyla’s series A…

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Design Sprints | October 16, 2017

What Makes a Good Sprint Facilitator?

Last week was not only Austin City Limits Music Festival but also Startup Week here in Austin. Barton Springs was full of festival equipment, the…

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Design Sprints | June 26, 2017

5 Lessons from Twyla’s First Design Sprint

At Twyla we learned the hard way and I’m sharing this post in hopes that you may avoid such pain. Twyla Team Working on How…

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