DESIGN SPRINT
Four days to reduce the risk of your innovation project

The Design Sprint allows you to meet your challenges of high speed or alignment in the execution of projects, commitment of individuals (internal or external customers) and development of your market in only 4 days

HOW DOES IT WORK?

It’s a process that goes from a problem to a solution through an experimentation of your assumptions on the market

 

Methodology developed by Google Ventures

https://www.gv.com/sprint/

STEPS

Day 1


User journey

• Understand the problem
• What is the cause of the problem?
• What is the context?
• Who are the users or customers?

Deliverables:

– Personae

– User journey

Day 2


Ideation and Storyboard

• Find solutions to the problem
• Imagine how the user wants to solve the problem
• Choose the best solution for the problem (hypothesis)
• Create a pretotype storyboard

Deliverables
– Projet opportunities
– Storyboard

Day 3


Pretotype and validation

• Create something easy to be shown to users
• Concentrate on collecting and validating your assumptions and not on the product
• Test your pretotype with real users and learn what works (or not)

Deliverables:
– Pretotype (blue print; landing page…)
– Experimentation guide

Day 4


Experimentation

• Support from a coach during the implementation of the experimentation

Deliverables:
– Validated learning

WHY?

This framework allows you to project yourself into the future in order to reduce the risks and uncertainties related to innovation

VISION

Understand customer needs, describe them and create their journey

TEAM

Realize the work dynamics and make the most of your team’s expertise

PROCESS

Identify innovative solutions in a short time

BENEFITS

Get user feedback before it's too late

Strengthen your culture of innovation

Reduce risks, create speed and momentum

Accelerate the productivity of your team

Produce an immediate result

Aligning your team with needs and opportunities

FOR WHO?

 

This program is dedicated to entrepreneurs who want to reduce the risk of their projects

while allowing them to bring innovative solutions.

FACILITATORS AND COACHES

Marie-Andrée Roger

Her approach has helped more than 125 innovation projects to optimize their actions and generate more value in their context. With more than 10 years of experience and passionate about technology, innovation and experimentation, Marie-Andrée applies her energy to bring out the best in people, ideas and resources.

Sylvain Éthier

Sylvain Éthier helps institutions and organizations use and integrate Design Thinking techniques and Agile methodology to improve the user experience and improve innovation processes. His title of User Experience Designer joins his three greatest passions: science, gaming and technology.

Erika Morin

Digital marketing specialist in product development and strategies. With over 20 years of experience in digital marketing, she guides teams to test and materialize innovative ideas through the application of Agile Methodologies and Design Thinking.

TESTIMONIALS

At BDC, we launched an ambitious mobile app development program for bank employees that supports one of our goals: to have a bigger impact on entrepreneurs. To succeed, we need to surround ourselves with extremely talented resources, such as Marie-Andrée, who masters new business models, modern hypothesis validation methodologies, risk assessment for innovation projects and rapid prototyping. For Marie-Andrée, there are only solutions. Design Sprint, Experimentation, Lean Startup are all approaches that she masters brilliantly.

François Guérette

Manager, Mobility Expertise Centre, BDC

The Design Sprint gave us a framework for decision-making with more confidence and depth. We also gained new perspectives on our product by keeping the original idea of the project.

Maxim Garant-Rousseau

Product Owner - Product Marketing, GSoft

CLIENTS

Identification of the growth business model in France

Building their minimum viable product (MVP) in setting up a new product

Reduce the risk of launching a large mobile application thanks to the Design Sprint

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