This week’s episode in our Design Sprint Short series – F-A-Qs or Facts – Assumptions – and Questions – attempts to help groups elevate their thinking to focus resources and efforts at solving the right problems. This activity helps get all of the different domain knowledge out of individuals’ heads and up on the wall to be shared and referenced by the team.

1. Design Sprint Shorts

2. Episode 3:
Facts, Assumptions, &
Questions

3. Facts, Assumptions, & Questions
INSTRUCTIONS
HINTS & TIPS
1. Individually, participants write each of the following on a
coordinating colored post-it (one per post-it)
○ FACTS - things you know to be true
○ ASSUMPTIONS - things you think might be true
○ QUESTIONS - unknowns
FACTS ASSUMPTIONS QUESTIONS
○ Take your time. Get it right.
2. Share and organize into three columns
3. As a group, challenge any statement
4. Dot vote to determine riskiest assumptions
?
?

4. Next week:
Assumption Storming
ds@freshtilledsoil.com