Creating cohesion and focus in the group An onsite Book Sprint relies on the social quality of having a group in the same location, focused on completing one task. Personal lives are shared over a cup of coffee, lengthy discussions ... read more
In the beginning of March 2020, just a couple of days before the COVID19 pandemic hit Europe, 9 international experts from 4 countries met to write a book within 5 days: The Manifesto and handbook “Hybrid environments for universities. A shared ... read more
Managing group discussions and finding common grounds is a fundamental part of the Book Sprints process, and of many other collaborative processes. In times of COVID-19, we dive deep into the remote facilitation of online discussions. For Book Sprints, video ... read more
A Book Sprint relies on high commitment from the participants, a dedicated working space and strong facilitation. While there is an obvious pattern across all Book Sprints, the range of client needs, participants and subjects we encounter result in very ... read more
Facilitating Virtual Book Sprints is our response to the new normal and the needs of our clients. Their need is to collaboratively and efficiently produce knowledge, some of it more urgent than ever. Customizing the Book Sprint experience Our team ... read more
Update: Learnings from week 1 and 2 We successfully finished the first ever fully virtual Book Sprint with Red Hat! Read more about the book here. Below Barbara talks about some of our learnings of two weeks intense and gratifying ... read more
This is the first of a series of posts planned to shed light on the many ways Book Sprints will explore becoming a greener organisation. While we are still in the planning stages, Book Sprints has donated funding to ... read more
In order to support and lend transparency into our organization’s continued growth and new initiatives, such as Sprint Lab, Book Sprints has added support for communications via my new venture, O’Connell Consulting. We are excited about working together to quickly ... read more
It’s no secret that our rapid authoring and editing process has relied on the open source, browser based books production system Editoria since 2018. Editoria has been developed by Coko, but is very much a community owned system in the ... read more
After over ten years and one hundred and fifty successful Sprints, we are pleased to announce the successful launch of SprintLab earlier in 2019. With more than five Sprint Lab events completed, we are happy to share this outgrowth as ... read more
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