Rob Hamblen - Behind the Scenes of World-Class Design Sprints

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Rob Hamblen shares his insights on effective sprint facilitation, why he asks clients if they’re designing for today or tomorrow, and why design sprints have a PR problem. Highlights include: What do you do when senior leaders aren’t willing to be wrong? What types of business challenges are most suited to a design sprint? What have you learned from facilitating sprints with tricky team dynamics? Does dot voting to enable effective group decisions to be made? Does it matter if design sprints are performative if alignment is the result? ====== Who is Rob Hamblen? Rob is the Founder of Be the Leap, a company specialising in the combination of rapid innovation frameworks, like the Design Sprint and Design Thinking, with leadership accelerators. Why? To help product teams launch more successful products! With over three decades of experience working in and leading teams that make digital products, Rob has worked with clients like AMEX, Adidas, HSBC Bank, McKinsey and ‘that company formerly known as Twitter’. Before founding Be the Leap, Rob served as a Product Design Director at AJ&Smart in Berlin.