Why Design Sprints Work - Daniel Walsh

Developing products and discovering emergent customer needs and wants is a complex challenge. Design Sprints are a powerful combination of practices and techniques to generate feedback and learning in dynamic and uncertain conditions. Come an join us for a talk about how complexity theory can be applied to understand and improve Design Sprints.

Objectives:

• Learn about complex systems and the Cynefin Framework
• Understand why Design Sprints work well in complex situations
• Discuss “how might we” improve Design Sprints by applying principles from complexity theory

Daniel Walsh is an entrepreneur, product development coach, and solutions engineer. He is a passionate advocate for Lean, Agile, and system engineering methods and practices with over 20 years of engineering and product development experience. Prior to founding nuCognitive, he was an engineering manager and a senior product consultant at Intel Corp. He has worked in areas as varied as product and process development, sales, marketing, strategic planning, product management, and talent recruiting. Over the years, he has developed heuristics for successful, sustainable transformations that scale. Daniel led and coached transformation efforts of diverse groups including hardware development, product validation, software development, supply chain, and internal startups.

Daniel is a graduate of MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations program where he received an M.S. in Engineering Systems and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Business. His current areas of focus include organizational transformations, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, Lean, Agile, Product Management, Cynefin, and complex adaptive systems. www.nuCognitive.com