Prep work is especially important for a remote Design Sprint, so this section of our guide is especially long □ There’s a lot to do: you need to choose and build comfort with new software tools, and you need to prepare the people who will be in your sprint. You’ll find AJ&Smart’s complete guide to remote sprints, Just Mad’s remote sprint video series, a bunch of case studies, and much more. If you want to go further, you can explore this spreadsheet featuring many of the primary sources we referred to while writing our guide. We’d love to hear your feedback when you use it-please send us an email ( and let us know how it goes.įinally, although we’ve sorted and sifted through everything to give you an opinionated how-to guide, there is a lot more good stuff on remote sprints out there. Although it’s based on our experts’ real-world experience, the exact combination of tactics in this guide are not yet a proven recipe. When we heard competing advice, we relied on our own judgment to choose the tactics that match the principles we used to develop the Design Sprint.Īn important note: Please consider this guide to be a beta version. Like a “greatest hits” album, some of the tactics made it into this guide because they’re overwhelmingly popular among the experts we interviewed. We’ve made a recommendation for every tool and tactic you’ll need to run a Design Sprint online. To make this guide as useful as possible, we’ve applied our personal opinions on top of the results of those interviews. This is an opinionated “greatest hits” guide With Jackie’s help, we’ve gathered input from more than 100 people around the world who have collectively run thousands of remote Design Sprints. We knew this would be a giant project, so we asked expert Design Sprint facilitator Jackie Colburn to help us collect and synthesize their advice. We believe firsthand experience is critical, so we enlisted the worldwide Design Sprint community to help us create this guide. However, we’re not experts on remote sprints-we’ve only been in a few sprints over video. Jake created the Design Sprint in 2010, and together Jake and JZ ran hundreds of sprints, perfected the tactics and process, wrote the bestselling Sprint book, and trained thousands of people on running their own sprints. For that, we recommend the Sprint book! Why you should (and shouldn’t!) trust us This guide includes advice on tools, facilitation, and modified tactics, but it does not include a step by step explanation of the entire Design Sprint process. This is a guide for running remote Design Sprints: a realtime, online, video-based twist on the original recipe.