We all know the optimal framework and success principles for Design Thinking sprints and projects:

• An inspiring working environment
• We can work in a face-to-face format
• A multidisciplinary team
• Only voluntary participants with an ideal mindset
• All participants know the methods and tools
• There is a strong management mandate
• There is a clear unambiguous challenge
• Management is also involved as participants
• There is sufficient time available
• We can use several external sources of trends and inspiration
• There is an entire model workshop available for our prototyping needs
• Our IT supports us in all digital issues and click dummies and fake sale websites
• We pay with our project to the current strategy and vision
• We have a clear budget for prototyping and testing
• and some more

Design thinking in reality

Let’s face it – our Design Thinking sprints and projects usually never run under these conditions. In fact, it is the normality that we always have some limiting factors in “real” life.

At verrocchio we know from experience that many Design Thinking trainers and Agile coaches, who have been trained under ideal lab conditions, have many problems here, when the framework conditions are just not ideal. This makes it all the more important to get concrete “real-life” help at hand.