What is this?
Short term remote sprints are a compressed version of the longer design sprints. This is ideal for groups with limited time and resources who need to see some progress on an idea.
What’s the outcome?
It’s a quick way to answer critical questions. Sprints help determine the direction of your organization by building consensus as a group and working toward a shared vision.
How does it work?
The below table shows you a general format. The tasks are generally spread over over a couple weeks.
| Task | Organization’s Role | Consultant’s Role |
| Challenge introduction – clarify the goal & deliverables | Organization provides initial information about the vision, roadblocks, success metrics, early wins, etc.. | Summarize for organization to approve |
| Identify current user experience | Map out the current experience for donors/volunteers/clients around the issue being discussed | Facilitate the customer journey mapping |
| How Might We’s (Technique to work through possible solutions to a challenge) | Based on internal knowledge, team members work through HMW exercises during a facilitated call (45-60 minutes) | Instruct team on the purpose of HMW and facilitate call, summarize findings (affinity mapping), present groupings to team members for vote |
| Ideas from HMW Exercise | Present suggestions on facilitated call (30 minutes) | Summarize suggestions, expand on top ideas, present for voting on next phase |
| Deciding | Determine direction to go in based on work to date (input from senior leadership) | |
| Prototype (This can be digital, paper, messaging, etc…) | Decide on what to test with potential users. | Build out collateral/prototype for feedback from target audience |
| Interviews | Talk to 3-5 constituents about prototype | |
| Recap and next steps | Recommendations for organization and summary doc |