Funsize Sprint School: Product Design Sprints Workshop

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FUNSIZE SPRINT SCHOOL: PRODUCT
DESIGN SPRINTS WORKSHOP

PART I
INTRODUCTION

ANTHONY ARMENDARIZ
Partner & Experience Director
@MANTWAN
ANTHONY@FUNSIZE.CO

76% OF OUR WORK ARE DIGITAL PRODUCTS (SOFTWARE)

WE ONLY WORK WITH PRODUCT ORGANIZATIONS.

PART II
HOW PRODUCTS ARE MADE

FIRST,
WE’RE TALKING ABOUT SOFTWARE
not MARKETING DESIGN

WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH WATERFALL?

Design is a process that should yield perfect work.
Nope. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Super wrong.

AGILE/LEAN’S CYCLICAL AND INCREMENTAL PROCESS
DEVELOP  
& RELEASE
DESIGN
(Iterations and
Variations)
VALIDATE &
TEST
GATHER
REQUIREMENTS

If you’re a product designer, you’re really designing
to create incremental value.

Today’s client’s are fucking smart.
The agency and designers don’t hold all the expertise.

THE BENEFITS
Teamwork: mo’ minds = mo’ betta
Move fast, fail fast, iterate fast
MVP & validation-oriented work
Incremental process vs. ship-and-done
mentality
Accommodates quarterly and annual
budget considerations vs. an entire-
project-at-once approach
Full project team transparency
Agency-to-client trust
Get product market ﬁt faster
Maximizes investments and saves money
No more over working as a designer
Get paid for everything you do, even if  
you ﬁnish a little early

TODAY WE’LL BE REVIEWING
Funsize Agile 2-Week Design Sprint
For creating short and long term
incremental value with 2 week design
sprints in retainer engagements.
Outcomes-Based 5-Day Sprints
For creating tangible measurable
results within a structured process and
short ﬁxed timeframe.

Q
&A
DID YOU CATCH ALL OF THAT?

OKAY. BREAK (10MIN.)

PART III
FUNSIZE AGILE DESIGN SPRINT
“STEADY PACE & INCREMENTAL VALUE”

WHAT’S THIS GOOD FOR?
Serious product companies
Partnerships/staff augmenting
Long-term projects
Ever-evolving product ecosystems

FUNSIZE’S 2 WEEK DESIGN SPRINT
SPRINT PLAN
DESIGN
(Iterations and
Variations)
VALIDATE &
TEST
KICK OFF

STORIES
THE WHO, WHAT AND WHY METHOD
“As a power user I need to be able to login to Instagram so
I can easily switch accounts to be able manage my personal
and business proﬁles.”

STORIES
TASK AND ACTIVITY METHOD
“Design account switching ﬂow”
“Reﬁne onboarding wireframes”
“Complete style guide and asset library”

STORIES
Stories are features and blocks of the work that are broken
up into small, easy to understand tasks that describe what
you are creating and when.
These are written and estimated collaboratively by our
clients and our design team. Each sprint we plan and
execute the stories based on priority and what we can plan
within our availability (velocity).

STORIES
Stories provide transparency. Stakeholders can read the
stories in layman’s terms, and ask questions. Clients can
look at how they are prioritized and have meaningful
conversations about what’s most important.
Stories help lower risk. Clients often have limited
resources at their disposal. Delivering smaller pieces of
work at a rapid pace helps clients get their products in
front of their audience faster.

SPRINT POINTS
Estimating tasks with points help us assign an estimate that
matches the effort. Breaking things into smaller tasks allow
us to keep a good pace and manage the work smartly.
2 Hour Task = 1 Point
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16

SPRINT ACTIVITIES (8 POINTS/SPRINT)
Sprint Kickoff: 1 Pt./Sprint
Our teams meet to kick off the sprint.
Standups: 1 Pt./Sprint
Our two teams meet to check the pulse on
the status and various planning. We discuss
work in progress, blockers, and capture
action items for both teams.
Internal Review: 2Pts./Sprint
Funsize design team internal review of
progress.
Design Review: 2Pts./Sprint
Funsize and client teams meet weekly to
review the design progress, discuss open
stories, capture action items and discuss
design.
Backlog Groom: 2Pts./Sprint
Funsize and client meeting to organize the
backlog of upcoming items, capture tasks
and stories we believe should be worked on,
and plan the next sprint in advance of the
next sprint.

SPRINT VELOCITY: A 1 PERSON DESIGN TEAM
1. Starting Velocity
A project has 1 Designer who works a
typical 40 hour per week schedule or 80
hours per 2 week sprint.
Converting hours to points that designer
can work a maximum of 40 points per 2
week sprint.
2. Adjusted Velocity
40 Points
-Sprint Activities (8 Pts.)
= 32 Points/2 Week Sprint
This designer is doing 32 Hours of design
work and 8 hours of sprint activities/week.

WHAT THE HELL MAN?
Why do we do this?
How did we create this process?
Why is it important for our clients and design team to
embrace this way of working?

IT’S FUNSIZE-STYLE SPRINT WRKSHOP TIME!

OVERVIEW
With Bench, you get a
professional online
bookkeeper to do your books
for you and our simple,
elegant software to review
your ﬁnances. It’s everything
you need to forget about
your bookkeeping, without
actually forgetting about
your bookkeeping.

MESSAGES
Your bookkeeper can
message you with updates or
questions regarding your
expenses, accounts and
business reports.
You can message your book
keeper anytime you have a
question or something you’d
like to discuss.

EXPENSES
Your book keeper categorizes
your expenses but you can
always go in and change
them or discuss them with
your book keeper.

REPORTS
You and your accountant
have access to monthly
updated Balance Sheets and
Income Statements.

WORKSHOP 1: FUNSIZE METHOD
PLAN AND DESIGN BENCH’S FIRST
IPHONE APP’S CORE FEATURES.

EXERCISE 2
PLAN SPRINT 2 (+ WILDCARD)

EXERCISE 3
ORGANIZE THE REST IN THE BACKLOG

PART IV
THE 5-DAY GOOGLE SPRINT
“ TO CREATE MEASUREABLE OUTCOMES”

A PRESCRIBED PROCESS
DAY 0
Unpack
DAY 1
Setting the Stage
DAY 2
Sketch
DAY 3
Decision
DAY 4
Prototype
DAY 5
Test

WHAT’S THIS GOOD FOR?
Designing a new ﬂow
Validating a new product concept
Zero-MVP products
New design directions
Building new features

IT’S 5-DAY SPRINT WRKSHOP TIME!

Setting the Stage
DAY 0
Choose a big problem
Gather a team
Clear your calendars and grab supplies
Schedule a deadline and user study

WORKSHOP 2: OUTCOMES BASED 5 DAY SPRINT
DESIGN THE ON-BOARDING FLOW USING THE
OUTCOMES BASED 1 WEEK SPRINT.

THE ICEBOX HAS SOME CANIDATES FOR A WORKSHOP!

REVIEW YOUR THE PROBLEM OR TASK

Unpack
DAY 1
Unpack all of the knowledge
Draw insights as a team
Create a simple user story
Set the scope for the week

As a new user, it’s clear to me that Bench is a modern
solution for bookkeeping.
As a new user, signing up is easy and does not require me
to spend more than 2 minutes of my time.
As a current user, I can easily access Sign In.
As a current user, I am given the beneﬁts of knowing why I
need the companion iPhone application.

WRITE REQUIREMENTS AND ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA

Sketch
DAY 2
Work individually to sketch multiple solutions
Use structured critique & weighted voting to select the best ideas

Independently, sketch
as many as ideas as possible.

Decision
DAY 3
Narrow down solutions and make tough decisions
Draw a storyboard
Select research participants & start planning Day 5 interviews

Prototype
DAY 4
Be ridiculously productive
Build a realistic prototype
Gather a team of experts and set your plan in motion

PROTOYPE (OR BUILD) EVERYTHING

Test
DAY 5
Show your prototype to real customers
Observe & take really good notes
Start ﬁnding patterns in real-time

Reactions expose opportunities
VALIDATE YOUR IDEAS AND DESIGN

OKAY, LET’S RECAP

Q
&A
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

FUNSIZE SPRINT SCHOOL
Please reach out if your company is interested in
receiving a private presentation or deep dive workshop
of the two design sprint models covered here.
HOWDY@FUNSIZE.CO

Funsize Sprint School: Product Design Sprints Workshop

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