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Discovery Deep Dive IS SDL

Sprint 2 · Due · 10 points

You met your partner. You had a conversation.
But what did you actually hear?

Context

You met your partner in class on Wednesday. You had a deep discovery conversation. Now it's time to process what you heard — not just record it, but understand it.

Use the Dojo as a thinking partner to go deeper than your initial impressions.

What You'll Do

Open the Symbiotic Thinking Dojo. Work through what you discovered about your partner. The AI will help you process your observations and push you to go deeper.

Starting Guidance for Your Dojo Session:

  • Who is your partner? What's their world like?
  • What problem emerged from your conversation?
  • Walk through the path from their first answer to the real problem underneath it
  • What surprised you? What did you NOT expect?
  • Include specific quotes or moments from the conversation
  • What do you still need to understand that you couldn't get in one conversation?
📋 What Good Looks Like

Before you start — read this example

This is a fictional sample based on a different partner and problem. Your response should be about YOUR partner.

My partner is a nursing student who told me her biggest frustration is "studying takes too long." But when I asked her to walk me through the last time she actually sat down to study, a different pattern emerged — she spends 20-30 minutes just figuring out WHAT to study before she even starts. She opens Canvas, checks the syllabus, compares due dates, looks at her notes from class... by the time she picks something, she's already frustrated.

The problem isn't study duration. It's the decision overhead before studying begins. She said "I just sit there going back and forth" — and when I asked how that feels, she laughed uncomfortably and said "honestly, sometimes I just give up and watch TikTok instead." That uncomfortable laugh was the real signal.
What I still need to understand: Is this a planning problem (she doesn't have a study plan) or an information architecture problem (Canvas and the syllabus don't make priorities clear)? Or is it an anxiety problem (she's afraid of choosing wrong)? Each of those leads to a completely different solution. I also noticed she mentioned "notes from class" but didn't seem confident about them — there might be a note-taking issue underneath the study issue.

What I observed vs. what she said: She SAID "studying takes too long." But what I OBSERVED is that she lit up when describing the actual studying part — her face changed. The frustration was entirely about the pre-study decisions. If I'd only listened to her words, I'd be trying to make studying faster. But her body language told me studying isn't the problem at all.

Copy-paste this to start your Dojo session:

I just had a discovery conversation with my Sprint 2 partner. I need to process what I heard — not just summarize it, but understand what it actually means. Help me go deeper: ask me about my partner's world, what problem emerged, what surprised me, and what I might be missing. Push me to use specific quotes and moments from the conversation, not vague summaries.

Open Symbiotic Thinking Dojo →

What We're NOT Looking For

  • Surface-level summary that could describe anyone ("they're stressed about school")
  • No specific quotes or moments from the actual conversation
  • Problem statement that sounds like what you assumed before talking to your partner
  • No distinction between what partner SAID vs. what you OBSERVED

What to Submit

Download the JSON from your Dojo session and upload to Canvas.

Format: JSON file download from Dojo session
Due:
Points: 10
Submit on Canvas →