Decision Sprint Canvas
First Principles · Futures Thinking · Design Thinking
90:00
session timer
1Frame · 10 min
2Question · 15 min
3Signal · 15 min
4Design · 20 min
5Prototype · 15 min
6Decide · 15 min
Problem Frame
What are we really solving?
10 min — whole team
10:00
Write the challenge in one sentence. Who is affected? What changes if we solve it? What are we not solving today?
0 / 800
Who is affected?
What changes?
Out of scope
First Principles Engine
Question the assumptions
15 min — challenge mode
15:00
What assumptions is this challenge built on? Which are inherited convention vs. fundamental truth? If one assumption were false, what would change?
0 / 800
Inherited convention?
Fundamental truth?
What if false?
Futures Thinking Engine
Detect the signals
15 min — horizon scan
15:00
What signals in technology, culture, regulation, or behaviour are relevant? What futures could they create? Which future would hurt us most?
0 / 800
Technology
Regulation
Culture
Behaviour
Design Thinking Engine
Understand the human
20 min — empathy + define
20:00
Who experiences this problem most acutely? What do they feel, need, and fear? What job are they trying to get done? What is the barrier we must remove?
0 / 800
Feel / need / fear
Job to be done
The barrier
Design Thinking Engine
Prototype the solution
15 min — rapid ideas
15:00
Sketch 2–3 ideas that address the barrier and the signal simultaneously. What is the smallest version to test in 2 weeks? What would we learn?
0 / 800
2-week test?
What we'd learn
Smallest version
Decision Zone
3D Decision Packet
15 min — commit to action
15:00
What do we do next? One clear decision. One owner. One deadline. What is the one thing that would make this decision wrong?
0 / 600
One decision
One owner
One deadline
What would prove us wrong?
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