How to facilitate a complete Design Sprint in 1-hour, in order to help a Zombie Mother.

After 4 years as an WebAnalytics team leader, I’ve been an UX Designer for the last 7 years, and recently shifted to start coaching UX/UI teams.
My job is basically to help these teams adopting the right mindset, explain why there is an “U” in “UX”, teach and use every useful tools I know and help them design great products and experiences that will hopefully have an impact on the users daily life and generate high value.

Among others things, I spent the last 8 months coaching a Designer’s Team inside the Innovation Lab of one the biggest French Insurer. This team had the particularity to work only in Design Sprints.

During this time, we prepared and facilitated more than 12 Design Sprints.
The subjects were brought by the internal business lines or by partners, and offered a great diversity of industries, challenges and maturity.

This context gave the team (and me) the opportunity to level-up really quickly on the methodology, which was awesome.
(The major drawback of this set-up was that we were constantly moving on quickly from one subject to another. Too quick maybe, as we did not have enough time to efficiently follow-up the projects and help the execution team to generate value quickly…but this is a subject for another article coming soon^^)