Design Sprints
Help your team achieve more in less time, and with greater focus.
Design Sprints are the antidote to prolonged decision-making and stalled ideation. They assemble key stakeholders, condense timelines, and propel teams towards decisive solutions.
This approach was designed and tested by a team at Google Ventures and its effectiveness has been harnessed by teams around the world. Whether you’re considering investment in something new or building momentum for a stalled project, a Design Sprint can move your team forward.
A Design Sprint will give your team the concentrated burst of energy and insight to make significant progress in a fraction of the time it normally takes to work on a new idea. When it comes to our plan of action, I use proven, "by-the-book" methodology, as well as custom adaptations I’ve defined over years of practice and repetition.
My Approach
I’ll help your team stay on track, avoid back and forth, and quickly come to a solution. During the Design Sprint, we’ll ideate, sketch, build, and test a prototype with customers using a proven process that incorporates a few of my own hand-picked methods for unlocking your team’s best work.
Team Empowerment & Concept Validation:
At the end of our time together, your team will have clarity around the path forward and clear action items for what’s next.
Pointed Guidance:
I’ll unlock your team’s potential by guiding them through each phase of the process – from challenging activities that require an extra push for clarity, to key decision-making moments that require a diffusion of politics.
Preparation and Stakeholder Management:
No matter the size of your organization, we’ll be sure we’ve got the right people in the room, and they’re prepped for success. We’ll ensure stakeholders are on board with the team’s focus before diving in and I’ll facilitate stakeholder check-ins during the Design Sprint if necessary to make sure our idea doesn’t get squashed once it leaves the room.
Why Me?
People Focused:
With a background in psychology and sociology, I’ve got a long held personal interest in understanding people and group dynamics. I believe that people are our most valuable asset and an empowered team is a powerful team, capable of doing the most good.
Design Sprint Expert:
An early adopter of the Design Sprint process, I started running sprints with product teams upon receiving an early copy of the book in 2016. I’ve since run Design Sprint trainings with John and Jake, authors of the Design Sprint book, and co-authored the Remote Design Sprint Guide with them at the start of the pandemic to help teams transition to remote quickly.
Nice things people have said
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We couldn't have been happier with Jackie's services to shepherd us through. Incredibly professional, she provided just the right mix of patience, but challenged us to make real-time decisions to get to real-time results. Sprints are a great tool to introduce new ways of working toward solving problems, but I am still in awe of how Jackie specifically helps bring some real artistry to the recipe. I highly recommend Jackie and her unique approach a thousand times.
Joe Serrano, Director of Innovation and Transformation, Best Buy
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Jackie Colburn is one of the absolute best facilitators I know, she’s an expert in the Design Sprint process, and we've had the opportunity to collaborate on multiple projects.
John Zeratsky, Co-author of Sprint
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I've been in over 50 Design Sprints, yet I'm blown away by Jackie's ability to engage people (remotely) and catalyze creative collaboration.
Marin Licina, Design Partner, Gradient Ventures