/workflow-design-sprint

description: Run the Design Sprint workflow (5-day prototype-and-test arc producing a Decider's build/iterate/pivot/stop call)

Run the Design Sprint, a structured five-day workshop (Knapp/Zeratsky/Kowitz) that takes a single challenge from blank-page Monday to a validated-or-invalidated Friday, grounded in five customer interviews against a one-day prototype.

This workflow chains the 7 `tool-design-sprint-*` skills in their canonical sequence, with `tool-note-and-vote` invoked at decision moments (the Monday HMW heat-map and optional target supervote, and the Wednesday heat-map plus straw poll). For each step, read the skill instructions and follow them.

> Note: Design Sprint is a workshop methodology, NOT an agile / Scrum sprint. For pm-skills' agile sprint planning, use `/workflow-sprint-planning`.

Workflow Steps

Step 1: Readiness

Use the `tool-design-sprint-readiness` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-readiness/SKILL.md` to diagnose whether the team should run a Design Sprint now, postpone, or do prerequisite work first.

Step 2: Brief

Use the `tool-design-sprint-brief` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-brief/SKILL.md` to lock the challenge, sprint questions, team, customer recruiting plan, prototype medium, interview format, and success criteria before Monday.

Step 3: Map and Target (Monday)

Use the `tool-design-sprint-map-and-target` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-map-and-target/SKILL.md` to produce the long-term goal, sprint questions, customer/system map, HMW cluster board, and the Decider's target moment.

Step 4: Sketch (Tuesday)

Use the `tool-design-sprint-sketch` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-sketch/SKILL.md` to structure lightning demos and the four-step independent solution sketch protocol.

Step 5: Decide and Storyboard (Wednesday)

Use the `tool-design-sprint-decide-and-storyboard` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-decide-and-storyboard/SKILL.md` to run the art-museum layout, heat map, speed critique, straw poll, Decider supervote, and storyboard.

Step 6: Prototype Plan (Thursday morning)

Use the `tool-design-sprint-prototype-plan` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-prototype-plan/SKILL.md` to produce the role plan, Five-Act interview script, trial-run checklist, and participant confirmation tracker.

Step 7: Test and Score (Friday)

Use the `tool-design-sprint-test-and-score` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-test-and-score/SKILL.md` to run the 5 customer interviews, score the sprint questions, capture hot takes, and produce the Decider's build / iterate / pivot / stop call.

Throughout, use the `tool-note-and-vote` skill from `skills/tool-note-and-vote/SKILL.md` to run structured group decisions at each decision moment.

Output

Produce each artifact in sequence. The Decider's call (Step 7) is the final output, grounded in the five customer interviews against the prototype.

Reference the Design Sprint workflow at `_workflows/design-sprint.md` for additional guidance.

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