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description: Run the Design Sprint workflow (5-day prototype-and-test arc producing a Decider's build/iterate/pivot/stop call)
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Run the Design Sprint, a structured five-day workshop (Knapp/Zeratsky/Kowitz) that takes a single challenge from blank-page Monday to a validated-or-invalidated Friday, grounded in five customer interviews against a one-day prototype.

This workflow chains the 7 `tool-design-sprint-*` skills in their canonical sequence, with `tool-note-and-vote` invoked at decision moments (the Monday HMW heat-map and optional target supervote, and the Wednesday heat-map plus straw poll). For each step, read the skill instructions and follow them.

> Note: Design Sprint is a workshop methodology, NOT an agile / Scrum sprint. For pm-skills' agile sprint planning, use `/workflow-sprint-planning`.

## Workflow Steps

### Step 1: Readiness

Use the `tool-design-sprint-readiness` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-readiness/SKILL.md` to diagnose whether the team should run a Design Sprint now, postpone, or do prerequisite work first.

### Step 2: Brief

Use the `tool-design-sprint-brief` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-brief/SKILL.md` to lock the challenge, sprint questions, team, customer recruiting plan, prototype medium, interview format, and success criteria before Monday.

### Step 3: Map and Target (Monday)

Use the `tool-design-sprint-map-and-target` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-map-and-target/SKILL.md` to produce the long-term goal, sprint questions, customer/system map, HMW cluster board, and the Decider's target moment.

### Step 4: Sketch (Tuesday)

Use the `tool-design-sprint-sketch` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-sketch/SKILL.md` to structure lightning demos and the four-step independent solution sketch protocol.

### Step 5: Decide and Storyboard (Wednesday)

Use the `tool-design-sprint-decide-and-storyboard` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-decide-and-storyboard/SKILL.md` to run the art-museum layout, heat map, speed critique, straw poll, Decider supervote, and storyboard.

### Step 6: Prototype Plan (Thursday morning)

Use the `tool-design-sprint-prototype-plan` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-prototype-plan/SKILL.md` to produce the role plan, Five-Act interview script, trial-run checklist, and participant confirmation tracker.

### Step 7: Test and Score (Friday)

Use the `tool-design-sprint-test-and-score` skill from `skills/tool-design-sprint-test-and-score/SKILL.md` to run the 5 customer interviews, score the sprint questions, capture hot takes, and produce the Decider's build / iterate / pivot / stop call.

Throughout, use the `tool-note-and-vote` skill from `skills/tool-note-and-vote/SKILL.md` to run structured group decisions at each decision moment.

## Output

Produce each artifact in sequence. The Decider's call (Step 7) is the final output, grounded in the five customer interviews against the prototype.

Reference the Design Sprint workflow at `_workflows/design-sprint.md` for additional guidance.

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