Design Thinking and Scrum on a Napkin

Jens had just finished a design thinking workshop at the HPI in Potsdam when we met for lunch. Together we created a drawing of how design thinking and Scrum would help a team not only to build a product efficiently but also to build the right thing.


The idea is quite simple: use the methods of design thinking - that little spiral in the left middle of the napkin -  within the sprints and with the Scrum team. Emphasized(!) this since it is easy to misread this drawing as a waterfall where you do first some design thinking and then Scrum to execute the design idea. While the level of knowledge is still low illustrated by the uncertainty cone - the two coned lines - you probably will spend more time applying design thinking methods to gather more knowledge of the problem then when you know more about what to build and how.


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