Design Sprint
I first came across the concept of Design Sprints whilst helping a UX team with their process - They were working up to 3 months ahead of the development and generally from concept to implementation had a lead time of around six months! This was currently their first opportunity to test concepts. Design Sprints come out of Google and are used widely within Google Ventures - Their Venture Capitalist division. Design sprints are 5 days in duration, run from 10am to 5pm. It's really important to have the right people involved in these sessions and they must not be considered as part-time sessions where people can dip in and out of... If you can't set aside 5 days to run the sessions - than perhaps your not ready to run one! That all said there will be some important stakeholders and decision makers who will not be able to put aside the time required. In which case make sure that the people who really care, those who have a real vested interested those who are the ...