Design Sprint Masterclass for Product Managers

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3 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Lead Design Sprints like a ⚡️PRO - de-risk ideas, validate user-centered solutions, and secure stakeholder buy-in for your next 🚀launch.

Product teams we've trained

Mattel
adidas
SAP
Caterpillar
Roche

Course overview

Align teams. Meet customer needs. De-risk your product roadmap.

As a product manager, you’re constantly balancing discovery with the need to make confident, informed decisions—while aligning stakeholder demands, supporting your design and development teams, and staying ahead of the competition. To truly differentiate yourself, you need to make strategic choices and guide your teams toward user-centric solutions that drive business impact and minimize development risk.


This means you need a reliable, scalable process to uncover real user needs and consistently find the best solutions—enter Design Sprints.


This course equips you with the hands-on skills and confidence to lead impactful Design Sprints in-house, transforming the way you and your team solve problems.


We've distilled a decade of experience conducting Design Sprints for top brands and training elite teams into this program. You’ll gain direct insights from firsthand case studies and learn from seasoned experts, taking away practical tools, reusable templates, and facilitation techniques ready to implement with your team.


This is more than a beginner’s guide—it’s a masterclass designed to elevate your facilitation skills and help you confidently lead sprints that replace business-as-usual routines with user-driven insights and effective solutions. By the end of the course, you’ll not only be equipped to run your own sprints but also make a compelling case to sponsors, demonstrating the value of low-cost, high-impact sprints that seamlessly integrate into agile workflows. And who knows, you might even position yourself as a go-to leader in innovation facilitation, setting the stage for your next career move.

Who is this course for

01

For the Strategic Product Manager who needs a clear, repeatable process to validate user-centered solutions quickly

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For the Innovation Manager or Team Lead who wants to build alignment across cross-functional teams

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For the Agile Coach or Consultant who wants to become a go-to expert in Design Sprint facilitation

What you’ll get out of this course

Create new value propositions that address real user needs - reduce the risk of building the wrong product

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to identify, define, and validate compelling value propositions that directly align with user needs, minimizing wasted resources and maximizing product-market fit.

Build AI-powered prototypes quickly and cost-effectively

Gain the skills to leverage AI for fast, functional prototypes that look and feel real, allowing for quick user testing and feedback without extensive resources—helping you iterate faster and lower development risk.

Gain real facilitation experience - hands-on practice as a Design Sprint Facilitator

Nothing accelerates skill and confidence like real practice under expert supervision. Master each stage of the Design Sprint by experiencing it firsthand as a hands-on facilitator.

Walk away with a ready-to-use Facilitation Toolkits for in-person and remote Design Sprints

Our Design Sprint Facilitation Toolkits (both remote and in-person) include Presentation Decks, Miro boards, Agendas, Checklists, Design Sprint Briefs, and Sprint Replay Reports, providing you with all the resources to lead impactful sprints from day one.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

13 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jan 20—Jan 26

    Jan

    21

    Module 1: Introduction to Design Sprints, How to prep & Project Kick-off

    Tue 1/214:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 1: Introduction to Design Sprints, How to prep & Project Kick-off

    3 items

    Jan

    23

    Module 2: Understand & Define - Hands-on Facilitation Practice

    Thu 1/234:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 2: Understand & Define - Hands-on Facilitation Practice

    2 items

Week 2

Jan 27—Feb 2

    Jan

    28

    Module 3: Ideate & Decide - Hands-on Facilitation Practice

    Tue 1/284:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 3: Ideate & Decide - Hands-on Facilitation Practice

    2 items

    Jan

    30

    Prototype & Test - Hands-on Facilitation Practice

    Thu 1/304:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 4: Prototype & Test - Hands-on Facilitation Practice

    2 items

Week 3

Feb 3—Feb 7

    Toolkits Overview (Video on-demand)

    2 items

    Get Certified - Tips & Advice Pass the exams

    2 items

What people are saying

        I recently participated in a design sprint training and it was GREAT! Design Sprint Academy was professional, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic about the seminar material and helped my group feel comfortable and confident as well. The hands-on learning was excellent, and I really appreciated getting both participant and facilitator perspectives
Audrey Watanabe

Audrey Watanabe

Associate Manager, Inventor Relations @ Mattel
        DSA is one of the leading organizations on bringing the Design Sprint methodology to an ever-growing audience.They are great strategic collaborators and bring a wealth of experience from the facilitation of Design Sprints to scaled outreach and education of the broader Design Sprint Community.
Felix Wang

Felix Wang

Senior UX Designer @GOOGLE
        I attended the Design Sprint training virtually. The training course content and delivery were superb. Thank you John Vetan, for delivering it so smoothly.
Mark Niel Sy

Mark Niel Sy

Technology R&D Sr. Principal @Accenture
        DSA gave me a great grounding in facilitation techniques and design sprint methodology. The quality of their tuition and facilitation and attention to detail in how they present their approach sets them apart.
Seamus Galvin

Seamus Galvin

Senior Innovation Business Partner @ BSI Group
        DSA provides an amazing training experience. John and the team have developed a professional and fun experience with just the right mix of presentation content and hands-on demonstrations. I'm confident we can apply the methodologies taught to deliver impact!
Kris Wahl

Kris Wahl

Innovation Project Manager @Turner Construction Company
        My super-high expectations have been exceeded by far. So much focus, a business angle, and a new level of prototypes were eye-opening for me. Next to that, tons of facilitation learnings from guys who have experienced it.
Ivan Karacic

Ivan Karacic

Senior Partnering & Business Development Manager @Deutsche Telekom

Meet your instructor

John Vetan

John Vetan

Top Design Sprint leader | trainer to Google, SAP, Deloitte, eBay & 3,000+ pros

John Vetan, co-founder of Design Sprint Academy, is a leading expert in product innovation with over 20 years of hands-on experience.


After launching the world’s first Design Sprint Training in 2016, he set a new standard for tackling complex product challenges.


John has since led Google’s official Sprint Chapters in London and Berlin, spoken at Google Sprint Conferences, and trained global brands like eBay, Roche, Swift, SAP, and Mattel. As both a practitioner and educator, he shares real-world methods—not abstract theory—that rapidly validate ideas, reduce risk, and keep customer focus at the core of product development.

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Design Sprint Masterclass for Product Managers

Cohort 1

$1,500

Dates

Jan 20—Feb 6, 2025

Application Deadline

Jan 15, 2025

Course schedule

Total 12 hours of live sessions

  • Tuesdays & Thursdays

    8:00am PST / 4:00pm DST / 5:00pm EST/

    4x interactive live sessions over 2 weeks - each session is ⏰ 3 hours long, with breaks every 50 minutes for optimal focus.


    2025 Dates

    • January 21st
    • January 23rd
    • January 28th
    • January 31st
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Active hands-on Facilitation

Take on the role of the Facilitator and put theory into action right away. Practicing as you learn helps skills stick.

Interactive and project-based

You’ll work with other learners in breakout rooms and project teams, building real-world skills while developing a new product aimed at boosting profitability.

Facilitation Toolkits

Gain access to the internal tools used by top experts at Design Sprint Academy with their clients. These toolkits will help you easily repeat and scale the Design Sprint process.

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Join an upcoming cohort

Design Sprint Masterclass for Product Managers

Cohort 1

$1,500

Dates

Jan 20—Feb 6, 2025

Application Deadline

Jan 15, 2025

$1,500

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