New Hiring
A group of authors and editors came together for a Book Sprint at the Hamburg office of New Work SE (the company behind the German career network XING), to write a book on New Hiring.
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At Cisco Campus for sprinting Cisco DNA Center – AIOps
After a series of virtual Book Sprints with Cisco over the last two years, we had the pleasure of returning to the Cisco Campus in San Jose, California in April 2022. A dedicated group of only five authors wrote a ... read more
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Update Sprint with Cisco on the Catalyst 9000 series
It took just five days working online together to update the 3rd version of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches. In the process of updating the text with new product features, the group worked with the guiding instruction “if you add ... read more
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Little guide for great Book Sprint venues
When prospecting for a Book Sprint, organisers often ask us (and we answer in our FAQs) if we can recommend any ideal venues. Having facilitated more than 200 Book Sprints, we have come up with a list that we are happy ... read more
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Book Sprints for technical documentation: from early beginnings in open source to tech giants
Many in the tech industry started out with FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) projects, and so did the Book Sprints method. And just like software development, so did the development of the method go through some trial and error, and ... read more
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Sharing takeaways: Champions for innovative work methods
The Book Sprints team recently conducted a study about a topic close to our heart: our clients, the people we work with. Although they come from various fields of work, they all have one thing in common: they all dare ... read more
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A Concept Sprint for a book on MAVA’s legacy
In February 2022 we had the pleasure of working with colleagues from the MAVA Foundation again in a beautiful location on the shores of Lake Geneva. After sprinting two books about the foundation’s approach to strategic partnerships and its relatively ... read more
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Reasons to participate in a Book Sprint
The task to get a group of experts committed to a 5-day Book Sprint can be tricky. People take a risk putting their names on a book with others, and taking days off their busy routine to try out a ... read more
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Reflecting on 2021: learnings and improvement
2021 was a year of improving what we learned about online Book Sprints in 2020, and a chance to slowly go back to our origins of in-person Book Sprints: traveling the world to meet with groups for an intense 5-day ... read more
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What happens when we meet by Medienwerkstatt Encounters
We were lucky enough to have a number of onsite Book Sprints this year. One of them took place at a co-working space in the heart of Berlin in January 2021 with a group of community members of Medienwerkstatt Encounters. ... read more