Etch

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Save The Children Head of Innovation

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Etch?

Training on Google Design Sprints

What were your goals for this project?

Capacity building to enable the team to co-design solutions with external partners.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Recommendation by Jake Knapp

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Etch provided training on Google Design Sprints. We applied the training to develop solutions to support parent engagement with nursery schools.

What was the team composition?

Members of Save The Children's Innovation Team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

Their sprint methodology has enabled us to compress many weeks’ worth of work into a single week. Sprints allow us to receive and act on user feedback early in the development process, thereby ensuring we reach our beneficiaries with solutions that truly respond to their core needs and to do this in a cost effective manner.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Project management was a joint responsibility between Etch and Save The Children. The arrangement worked effectively.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Ross Chapman is a great sprint facilitator.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Additional resources would have been helpful such as a sprint brief template.