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GREAT Content, but find a mentor before you actually try this

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2019

Excellent content prepared with actual experiences. Easy read. Easy to understand. I read this as part of a 3 day design sprint workshop training session. The only thing worse than not doing a design sprint is to do it poorly, and have it backfire. I strongly recommend getting some professional training or mentoring before you try this in real life. Enlist the help of a seasoned designer. I am a project manager and while the concepts and examples in this book are very easy to understand and each concept on its own is relatively simple and doable, the real value is in executing the entire process end-to-end, and on a suitable project. Read it, enjoy it, wrap your head around it, then find the right project and team to implement this with. The results will amaze you.

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Robert Brown

Some good advice - take with a grain of salt

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2017

It's an interesting approach, but smacks of "this solves everything" - like many business books written by consultants. The author focuses on perhaps half a dozen success stories - really doesn't give you much of an idea how successful this approach is likely to be on any given project/issue to which it is applied. The emphasis on progress over perfection is good, and having a specific outcome and deadline to which the group is accountable is also good practice. It's perhaps a good arrow to have in your quiver.

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philipbergen

Only applies to simple problems

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2019

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Totally unrealistic process for large changes. This is for established products with a well understood market and customer and where all changes are incremental.

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Robert Christiansen

Slow going

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2016

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While the concept might be good and useful and there are some good points. The book moves slow, iterating the same things over and over, making progress slow and painful. Coupled with too much time used on name dropping, I gave up on it never finishing it.

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Ian Strang

It's a book about the great lengths the authors went to optimize solving the smallest ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2016

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It's a book about the great lengths the authors went to optimize solving the smallest and easiest part of the product development problem. Not particularly valuable to anyone doing anything of significance.

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Dug

Fanciful rather than practical

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2020

We have executed a few of these without much real impact.

- "Sprint" to build the wrong thing: How much do you actually know about your customers before you start this process? For most companies, very little.
- Huge investment: Where do we get the resources for this process? Pull everybody off the release train?
- Innovate in isolation: if you use a subset of the team, how do you select the most innovative people? How does everybody else feel?
- Prioritization tradeoffs: how do you reprioritize your existing roadmap to incorporate the MVP created by this process?
- Late testing: this may as well be waterfall if we wait to the last day to determine if the solution is usable and has value.

And to the argument that this is just a way to teach design thinking: failures and lack of impact to not inspire and create more investment.

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Fred

Despite the title and rating, a disappoinment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2019

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My main issue with this book it that despite the 5 day structure the underlying information is very unstructured. I also found that it was fluffed up with too many stories and examples. More clear step by step 'how to' guidance would have been beneficial.

I actually think Alberto Savoia's The Right It was more helpful.

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stroboskop

Aggressive feminist/gender lobbying are killing this book's writing

Reviewed in Germany on August 25, 2019

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All in all, this book is a great and practical description of sprint processes. It's generally well-written, in an easy and typical US-American style that's down to earth and practical. The reader is presented with a 5-day-rundown that's separated into chapters following the weekdays (Monday, Tuesday etc). The book also contains sketches and drawings that help visualise the content. I'm only awarding 2 stars because at some point the generic use of female pronouns and the exclusive showing-off of 'female success stories' just got so annoying that I found myself literally waiting for the next 'lecture' in feminism until it duly came around the corner on the next page.

The authors have decided in an absolutely unnecessary and annoying way to constantly whack their readers over the heads by forcing an over-the-top feminist agenda down their throats. While the writers themselves are all male, they keep using generic female pronouns for non-specific subjects. You will constantly encounter sentences like: "It is now up to the customer to decide if she wants to...", or "The decider will make it her mission to choose the right targets..." etc, even when these characters have not been introduced or specified as women before. In short, almost every non-specific character in this book is a 'her' or 'she'. Many of the characters they introduce in person ("Amy" etc) also have been pictured as particularly decisive, strong and knowledgeable, with plenty of emphases placed on illustrating their authority and insights. It's very noticeable in contrast to the description of male characters, who don't get characterised like that, and it's as annoying as it is incredulous.

To complete this jarring politicisation and totally drag it into the absurd, all examples of 'famous' scientists or inventors used as historical examples turn out to be women, meaning you don't know most of them (which may be the point the book is trying to make). So example after example you are presented with shining stories of women only, which considering all humanity-changing inventions made by men, is as pitiful as it is absurd. If we are striving for equality, then the authors sabotage it by consciously producing only female subjects and 'inspirations' in this book, using you as their reader to force-lecture on feminism with their own agenda instead. This is especially annoying when you are all for equality and women's rights, but don't want to be constantly reminded of the author's absurd virtue signalling.

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Joachim + Suleyman

Good for new product development, not for a new service development though - and too long!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2019

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Way too long for the amount of substance it offers.
It's a decent guide on how to prepare a new product release in a week, however not ideal if you want to launch a new service or improve processes.

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Could be shorter.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2021

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I'll be honest, while the process in the book is a useful concept, none of the information is that groundbreaking. What's more, the book feels slow, slow enough that I stopped d reading after 3 chapters (and I feel like I've got the gist). I'd recommend for people with a specific interest in the area, not for casual readers.

ELI SUSHANTH

Book quality is good but shipping or delivery spoiled my book

Reviewed in India on August 3, 2020

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Book quality is really good....good quality cover (greeting cards/ wedding cards quality) paper quality is so good ......but something happened that made my package tear as u can see in pic it spoiled my book and that is disappointing..!! Also u can see in other pic that front cover is spoiled ......book quality is 5 star rating but am giving 2 star for delivering my package in bad condition...!!

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malvika

Poor illustration quality in kindle version

Reviewed in India on May 11, 2021

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The media could not be loaded.

The really important sketches and ideas are not clear at all in the kindle version . Really dissapointed to find a UX problem in UX sprint solution book . Maybe buying the hard copy is a better idea :(

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