Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

According to Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz, all partners at Google Ventures, a sprint is a process for solving a business challenge in a week. The idea is that without the distractions of working on several projects at once, a small group of the right people can resolve a difficult problem in significantly less time. The book outlines the right people to invite, what questions to ask, and which rules to follow to make the endeavor successful. The authors' writing is engrossing and occasionally funny, offering advice on all sorts of aspects of the sprint process, even the unexpected, such as planning for whiteboards and which clock to buy. A solid portion of the work considers sprints that have been run with different businesses, including a coffee company and a robotics manufacturer, showing that this procedure might be more useful for a medium- to large-size company in which bureaucracy sometimes gets in the way of productiveness.