Next week, dev colleagues from abroad are coming to my office. Apparently I have to organise a "design sprint". I have never done a design sprint and we have never ran a design sprint in my company. We don't even have a dedicated UX/UI person. Me and other dev are doing designs since we are front-end

From what I've looked it up, a design sprint should take 5 days to do it correctly. I only have 3 days to fill assuming no other activities are planned. So anyone got any tips or advice?

@retoor Belgian. They are from Croatia (2), Italy, Spain & Kenya.

Sadly their b&b is a bit too far (+ too far from the old city) for giving them bikes but we have 2 company cars that they can. We have 2 more on our parking but they have a major problem with mold. I'll upload pictures later after I can be bothered to blur out the company logo on it :D

I've met 3 out of the 5 already. It was fun the last time. But we got a new manager that wants to make it a lot more coorporate/organised. Our previous CTO was less professional and it evolved into a drinking party most of the time & we barely worked haha

Now the manager wants to make it a lot more efficient with multiple workshops, prototyping and we even have a teambuilding with horses. I'm not really looking forward to that tbh.

So yeah... I just have no idea how to prepare for it when I don't even know the time limitation.

@retoor So far in my 4 years of working there, we had one work trip that was more for fun than work. We had a very exceptional year so the owners paid for a 3-day holiday to Croatia for all 30-ish employees (same city as one of our devs). But that ended up more expensive than they expected & ended up with drama between the C-levels & managers.

So for my ex-CTO went with an other Belgian developer to croatia multiple times that I was not invited to. My current manager already went once to Spain that I was also not invited to.

Hard to say if I would like a work holiday but I would love to move to a different country for a few years. I guess I would like it.