How Design Sprints Solve Biggest Product Manager Challenges

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What you'll learn

Turn stakeholder chaos into alignment

Struggling with constant shifts in stakeholder priorities? Learn how to lead conversations and bring order to chaos.

Get your team working together, efficiently

Foster focused, high-energy teamwork by aligning cross-functional teams to solve problems together and avoid rework.

Keep your roadmap intact, even with new ideas

Align everyone on a well-defined problem and path forward while staying responsive to business needs.

Make faster, user-centric decisions without endless meeting

Quickly prototype and test with real users to validate ideas, make confident decisions to keep your team moving forward.

See where Design Sprints fit into your PM toolkit

Integrate Design Sprints integrate into your workflow, delivering immediate results without disrupting existing process.

Why this topic matters

As a PM, you juggle stakeholder demands, team collaboration, and a shifting roadmap—leading to endless meetings, frustration, and delays. Enter Design Sprints. Developed at Google to tackle these exact challenges, they are a game-changer that simplifies your work and elevates your career, making you highly valued by stakeholders and respected as a top product manager.

You'll learn from

John Vetan

Trained 3000+ PMs at Google, Amazon, eBay, etc. 20 years of product experience

John Vetan, co-founder of Design Sprint Academy, is a hands-on expert in product innovation with over 20 years of experience building products in his own software company—where he learned the hard lessons of both success and failure. These experiences shaped his practical, no-nonsense approach to product development, ultimately leading him to discover design sprints.

In 2016, John launched the world’s first Design Sprint Training, setting a new standard for how organizations can quickly tackle complex product challenges. Since then, he has led Google’s official Sprint Chapters in London and Berlin, spoken at Google Sprint Conferences, and delivered training to global brands like eBay, SAP, Mattel, IMF, and Deloitte. Both a practitioner and teacher, he continues to conduct design sprints with industry leaders, sharing an approach grounded entirely in experience—not theory.

Over the past eight years, John has trained more than 3,000 professionals and built a global community of 10,000 design sprint practitioners. His training isn’t about hypothetical frameworks; it’s about tried-and-true methods that rapidly validate ideas, minimize risk, and keep customer focus in product development.

Trained teams at:

Google
eBay Inc.
SAP
Mattel
Caterpillar
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