Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (705 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B010MH1DAQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 310 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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But which habits work best? Sprint offers powerful methods for hatching ideas, solving problems, testing solutions—and finding those small, correct habits that make all the right behaviors fall in place."– Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit"To quote one of my colleagues, “don’t get ready, get started”. A sprint is a cure for what ails companies in an ever faster world.”—Beth Comstock, vice chair of GE"The key to success, often, is building the right habi
Within five days, you’ll move from idea to prototype to decision, saving you and your team countless hours and countless dollars. Designer Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google, where sprints were used on everything from Google Search to Google X. It’s for anyone with a big opportunity, problem, or idea who needs to get answers today.. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER“Sprint offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that works whether you’re at a startup or a large organization. A must read for entrepreneurs of all stripes.” —Eric Ries, author of The Lean StartupFrom three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies.Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, a
. Before joining Google Ventures, he was a design lead at YouTube and an early employee of FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007. Jake KnappJake Knapp created the Google Ventures sprint process and has run more than a hundred sprints with startups such as 23andme, Slack, Nest, and Foundation Medicine. Previously, Jake worked at Google, leading sprints for everything from Gmail to Google X. John writes about design and productivity for
Xander Pollock said A masterpiece. This is the new ’START HERE’ book I recommend to all my design students as well as CEOs I work with.. Jake, John, and Braden have synthesized the most important design-thinking concepts of today into a book that is worth its weight in gold. Seriously — I’ve translated the ideas and checklists in this book to tens of thousands of dollars already as a design consultant.It’s weird even after A masterpiece. This is the new ’START HERE’ book I recommend to all my design students as well as CEOs I work with. Xander Pollock Jake, John, and Braden have synthesized the most important design-thinking concepts of today into a book that is worth its weight in gold. Seriously — I’ve translated the ideas and checklists in this book to tens of thousands of dollars already as a design consultant.It’s weird even after 4 years of studying Art & Design in col. years of studying Art & Design in col. A treasure trove of unconventional, ingenious solutions to business questions. What Jake and his co-authors prescribe in the book sounds rather too good to be true and unconventional, but it has made a world of sense to me.What usually takes months and months of hopeless meetings, emails and expenditure has been narrowed down to just 5 days of intensive work by all the KEY parties. Emphasis has been put on 'key' parties as. A Better Way of Working Ben McMann "It's what work should be about – working together to build something that matters to people. This is the best use of your time. This is a sprint." This was a great sentence to finish the book, and it's a great sentence to begin working in a better way.In the preface, the author states he had his first child. When he returned to the office