Free course
Design Sprint Facilitation: A Deep Dive
Master the GV design sprint from the facilitator’s chair — Monday’s map to Friday’s test, plus the Foundation Sprint and the wider sprint landscape.
What you'll learn
A thorough facilitator training built on Jake Knapp’s Sprint and Knapp & Zeratsky’s Click. Walk the five days of a GV-style design sprint in facilitation detail — goals, maps, sketching, structured decisions, one-day prototypes, and five-user testing — then go upstream to the two-day Foundation Sprint, sharpen your group-dynamics craft, and survey Design Sprint 2.0, remote sprints, and adjacent methods. Every module ends in a check-in quiz, and the course closes with an annotated reading list.
Curriculum
Module 1 — The Sprint Method and the Facilitator's Role
- Why Sprints Work: Origins and Principlesreading · 12 min
- The Facilitator's Jobreading · 13 min
- Setting the Stage: Challenge, Team, Time, and Spacereading · 14 min
- Module 1 Check-In — Sprint Foundationsquiz · 8 min
Module 2 — Monday: Map and Target
- Start at the End: Long-Term Goal and Sprint Questionsreading · 13 min
- Making the Mapreading · 12 min
- Ask the Experts, How Might We, and Picking the Targetreading · 14 min
- Module 2 Check-In — Mondayquiz · 8 min
Module 3 — Tuesday: Remix and Sketch
- Lightning Demos and Divide or Swarmreading · 11 min
- The Four-Step Sketchreading · 13 min
- Recruiting Friday's Testersreading · 10 min
- Module 3 Check-In — Tuesdayquiz · 8 min
Module 4 — Wednesday: Decide and Storyboard
- The Sticky Decisionreading · 13 min
- Rumbles and the Note-and-Votereading · 10 min
- The Storyboardreading · 12 min
- Module 4 Check-In — Wednesdayquiz · 8 min
Module 5 — Thursday: Prototype
- Fake It: The Prototype Mindsetreading · 12 min
- Tools, Roles, and the Trial Runreading · 13 min
- Module 5 Check-In — Thursdayquiz · 8 min
Module 6 — Friday: Test and Learn
- Why Five Usersreading · 12 min
- The Five-Act Interviewreading · 14 min
- Patterns and Next Stepsreading · 13 min
- Module 6 Check-In — Fridayquiz · 8 min
Module 7 — Before the Sprint: The Foundation Sprint
- Why Projects Miss: The Case for Foundationsreading · 10 min
- Day One: Basics and Differentiationreading · 12 min
- Day Two: Approach, Magic Lenses, and the Founding Hypothesisreading · 12 min
- Module 7 Check-In — The Foundation Sprintquiz · 8 min
Module 8 — Facilitator Craft
- Group Dynamics and Difficult Momentsreading · 12 min
- Energy, Time, and the Facilitator's Toolkitreading · 12 min
- Remote and Hybrid Sprintsreading · 12 min
- Module 8 Check-In — Facilitator Craftquiz · 8 min
Module 9 — The Wider Sprint Landscape
- Design Sprint 2.0 and Compressed Formatsreading · 11 min
- Adjacent Methods: Design Thinking, Discovery, and Iteration Sprintsreading · 12 min
- Further Reading and Resourcesreading · 10 min
- Module 9 Check-In — The Sprint Landscapequiz · 8 min
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