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Ship more successful products more often

Use Rolling Sprints to transform your product discovery.

Product teams inside Google, Home Depot, and Rosetta Stone use Rolling Sprint to achieve more structure, speed, and radical alignment to their discovery process.

Why Rolling Sprints?

Experience all of the insights, creativity, and speed of a Design Sprint, plus:

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3x discovery outcomes via multiple rounds of rapid prototyping & testing

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Achieve early cross-functional alignment on strategic initiatives

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Give your team time back via efficiently planned, asynchronous workflows

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Scale a product-driven, customer-centered mindset across the org

We’ve led sprints for Product teams inside

HOW IT WORKS

The major milestones of Rolling Sprints

All delivered within an Accelerated (3-mo) or Balanced (6-mo) delivery cycle

 
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1. Understand & Align

  • Review, refine, and rally around the vision and strategy

  • 1:1s with key team members and stakeholders

  • Benchmarking, analysis, and researching market opportunities

  • Communicate strategy and generate buy-in across the leadership team

  • Cross-functional team alignment and kickoff

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2. Discover & Define

  • Problem Discovery workshops to surface, prioritize, and define market opportunities that align with strategy

  • Problem Discovery research to validate and refine opportunities

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3. Prototype & Validate

  • Foundational Sprint to prototype and validate potential solutions to opportunities

  • Synthesis and agreed upon action items for subsequent Iteration Sprints

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4. Reflect & Iterate

  • Half-way point: Reflection and iteration on process, team, tools

  • Iteration Sprint #1: Gap analysis, prototype refinement or alternate, and additional market validation

  • Training on customer-centered discovery and design thinking methods

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5. Iterate & Synthesize

  • Iteration Sprint #2: Gap analysis, prototype refinement or alternate, and final market validation

  • Final sprint synthesis and go-to-market plan

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6. Fund & Implement

  • Advise leadership team on solutions to be funded and taken to market

  • Coach implementation teams on continuous discovery practices

  • Recruit, screen, hire, and ramp up future innovators & team members

  • Reflection and iteration on process, team, tools

Here’s what you get with each Rolling Sprint

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 Product leader testimonials

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RJ Johnson Mailchimp - Testimonial 2
Kai Haley Coinbase - Testimonial 3
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If you are a product leader constantly chasing the wrong priorities and want to ship winning products that your team is proud of . . .

Receive your customized Discovery Blueprint

In 45 minutes, we'll break through the major challenges your product team faces, and create your plan to:

  • Identify on the right priorities that move the needle and drive ROI

  • Build innovative solutions that your team & stakeholders are proud of

  • Get complete buy-in from the C-suite and align your cross-functional partners

  • Speed up intelligently, while avoiding endless research and rebuilds