| SPRINT by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz, Animated Summary (YouTube) |
Design Sprints are typically done in teams, but if you are doing this exercise alone or with another person, we have designed alternative exercises for you.
5.1 Design Sprint: Overshoot Day
5.1.1 What is a Design Sprint?
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A Design Sprint is a process that involves applying creative approaches to a problem, prototyping, testing, and pitching ideas. Typically design sprints are done under time constraints through structured exercises: the idea being that creative solutions can be found by eliminating long discussions (yack) and focusing on targeted solutions (hack).
Typically design sprints are carried out in the early stages of project planning. It can be used to help teams define goals, check their assumptions, and create a roadmap for product or project development. The free-flowing and creative nature of the process allows multiple, possibly conflicting ideas to be surfaced, along with possible solutions, finding ways to decide on a solution to be pursued, before significant resources are allocated.
This design sprint is a five-day design spring based on the one developed by Google Ventures (ours will take a couple of hours) but the principles are the same. See if you can match the tasks to the definitions. 
Exercise: drag the words into the correct boxes
For the Overshoot Day Sprint, we will focus on the first three steps and the last (in the form of a pitch). But if this process seems like a good one for your organisation, you may want to watch this YouTube video by Productivity Game which distills the Google five-day sprint into an eight minute video.