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There are several alternative strategies to the Design Sprint for testing business ideas. Some of these include Lean Startup methodology, Agile development, Scrum, and Kanban. Lean Startup methodology focuses on creating a minimum viable product to test market hypotheses and requires continuous innovation based on customer feedback. Agile development is a set of principles for software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing cross-functional teams. Scrum is a subset of Agile and is a lightweight process framework for agile development. Kanban is another agile methodology that is used to manage work by balancing the demands with available capacity, and by improving the handling of system-level bottlenecks.
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The Design Sprint was created by Google Ventures to test ideas without wasting resources. It's proven to work for all kinds of business cases regardless of industry, from tech companies like Slack, to consumer products like Blue Bottle Coffee. It's important to follow a structured day-to-day schedule during a sprint week, and the sprint calendar lays it all out:
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