Design Sprint Brief

Produce the brief that aligns the team on challenge, sprint questions, participants, customer recruiting, prototype medium, interview format, logistics, and success criteria before Monday begins. A well-built brief prevents Monday morning from opening with re-litigation of "what are we testing this week?"; a missing or vague brief almost guarantees it.

Family contract: docs/reference/skill-families/design-sprint-skills-contract.md. This skill is a member of design-sprint-skills.

When to Use

• The readiness verdict from tool-design-sprint-readiness is Go (or Conditional Go with preconditions cleared).
• The sprint has dates blocked on calendars and you need the artifact that names what the sprint is for.
• The team has customer recruiting active and you need to commit a recruiting plan, honorarium budget, and Friday schedule before recruiting closes.
• A skeptical exec wants to know "what is the team doing for five days plus customer cost?" and you need an answer that fits on two pages.

When NOT to Use