Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products

By Richard Banfield, C. Todd Lombardo, and Trace Wax
ASIN#: 978-1491923177

In the talent space, we often spend months (or years) debating a new initiative, only to launch it and find that employee adoption is lukewarm at best. What if you could compress months of deliberation into a single week of high-impact action?

This is the power of the Design Sprint. Written by veteran practitioners, this guidebook outlines a five-phase process—Understand, Diverge, Converge, Prototype, and Test—designed to move a team from a messy problem to a validated solution in record time.

For an HR or L&D leader, a "Design Sprint" isn't just about pixels and code; it's about Strategic Agility. It’s a framework for cross-functional collaboration that forces stakeholders to stop talking and start building. By using these tools, you can prototype a new talent strategy or a digital learning tool, test it with real "users" (your employees), and iterate before you’ve spent a single dollar on a full-scale rollout.

This book provides the practical toolkit to stop guessing and start proving what works for your people.

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