What are Sprints?

What are Sprints?

The best tool to incentivize and reward users for active engagement. By using sprints you are able to transform your app into a mini game with winners and losers. Most programs have natural breaking points, if you engage students maybe you have quarterly sprints to match the school year, if your program is short maybe monthly or bi-weekly sprints. What’s important is you sync your sprints with the natural flow of your program.

 

Example Sprint Schedules

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Major Announcement Style

Founded in Philly is an annual accelerator program run by Philly Startup Leaders. With the program only taking up 12 weeks out of the year their program manager has decided to save who is announced as the ‘winner’ until their yearly Expo that is attended by 2,000+ people.


Quarterly Winners

Working with the seasons is a natural fit and is extremely manageable.


Monthly Winners

Want to ensure no user feels left out? Try making monthly sprints.

 

Creating an Announcement Calendar

Stay on track by establishing set dates that you will announce winners and introduce the next sprint. You want to make sure the leaders know they won and the losers know they have another shot at glory. Here are a few ways to let people know. So head on over to your calendar and write a little reminder when your sprints end and make a note of which methods you will use to announce the winners.

  • Major events

  • Create a category to store a history of winners

  • Let stakeholders know

  • Send out a push notification

  • Post it to the activity feed


    P.S. This might be a great time to simultaneously notify other major stakeholders how your users are doing!


Rewarding Sprint Winners

How will you be rewarding users? What do you think might incentivize your users the most?

  • Recognition in front of their peers

  • Prizes




How to Create a Sprint

To create a Sprint, click on the Add a Sprint button on the upper right hand side and enter your desired Start and End dates. To edit an existing Sprint, choose the specific entry from the list and edit through the page that pops up.

 
 
 
 

Evaluating Past Sprints

View your community’s leaderboard stats for specific sprints by clicking the Select a sprint dropdown and choosing the desired sprint. When a specific sprint is not selected, the leaderboard shown is reflective of the total accumulated points-per-user to date.

Click on the Leaderboards section on the lefthand sidebar in the Admin.

To view results from specific Sprints, click the dropdown arrow next to "All Time" and select the period of time (sprint) for which you would like to see the leader results.

 

Why does an individual's user activity not match the team leaderboard activity?

If you have a user that has switched teams... On their profile: you will be able to see a full record of their activity history On their current team: you will be able to see any activity completed while on that team So a user can have accrued points towards multiple teams.

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