Review of Sprint

You couldn’t find three guys who do a better job of incarnating today’s spirit of finding and applying efficient problem solving than Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz. As the pace of change accelerates, even the best ideas have little time to gestate. Yet businesspeople often must identify, polish, map and consumer test new ideas as fast and thoroughly as possible. In a company like, for example, Google, nobody has six months to figure out if something works. The next idea is already bulleting down the pipeline. You need to know if your idea – in a clear, marketable form – has legs and can find an audience. If it does, build it. If not, move on. In their “sprint” consultant roles at Google, YouTube, Slack, Nest, various VC firms, and other cutting-edge companies, the authors discovered, codified and applied sprint thinking under high-pressure circumstances. This handbook lays out their process in detail and shows you how to run a successful sprint to identify, name, build, format and test a commercial idea. The authors are smart, articulate, enthusiastic, passionate and only slightly repetitive. Their passion carries over to each page and spurs enthusiasm in the reader. Your head will be bursting with new ideas or ways to apply their approach to emerging projects or familiar problems. getAbstract recommends this manual and its method to venture capitalists, sole practitioners, corporate departments and everyone who has a great concept but doesn’t know where to start.