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BRAINWRITINGThe team hack to generate better ideas
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IDEAS!
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Organizations and companies are constantly engaged in processes designed to develop new methods, processes, and products aimed at building and
sustaining their competitive edge.
Often the ideas that are the basis for innovations are developed in group settings, such as team meetings.
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Articulate the difference between Brainstorming and Brainwriting Teach others about the social components of idea generation Facilitate brainwriting sessions with your own teams Have fun with your table-mates along the way!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Introduce yourself to the rest of the table. Spend 5 minutes discussing what you
know about brainstorming.
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ALEX F. OSBORN“We should hold back criticism until the creative current has had the chance to flow.” “Become more conscious of the creative power within your reach.” “As a term, imagination covers a field so wide and so hazy that a leading educator has called it an area which psychologists fear to tread.” “Each of us does have an Aladdin’s lamp, and if we rub it hard enough, it can light our way to better living.”
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Published Applied Imagination in 1953 Introduced a technique he called “brainstorming”
Go For Quantity Withhold Criticism
Welcome Wild Ideas Combine and Improve Ideas
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- Alex F. Osborn
“IT CONCENTRATES SOLELY ON CREATIVE THINKING AND
EXCLUDES THE DISCOURAGEMENT AND
CRITICISM WHICH SO OFTEN CRAMP IMAGINATION.”
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WHAT ARE SOME CHALLENGES TO USING THIS TECHNIQUE?
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Only one person can talk at a time HIPPOs Waiting to speak means forgetting Introverts lose out Politics more important than ideas
BRAINSTORMING CHALLENGES
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How many times have we said, “This is just the way we’ve always done things”?
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Brainwriting is an idea-generating technique mean to focus the group more on the output rather than the
social components of the activity.
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6-3-5 BRAINWRITINGPublished 1968 by Bernd Rohrbach in Germany
6 Participants Write Down 3 Ideas In 5 minutes
6 Rounds = 108 ideas in 30 minutes
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Electronic Brainstorming (EBS) - Introduced in the 1980s, with the hope of using computer-mediated electronic communication to improve creativity.
Asynchronous Brainstorming in an Industrial Setting: Exploratory Studies published by Tel Aviv University and UT-Arlington in 2015
ITERATIONS ON 6-3-5
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If the #1 problem to Agile adoption is education what are some ways to educate people? - 3 minutes Pass the paper to the right - 3 times Goal is to identify as many ways as possible. Who can generate the most ideas?
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LET’S DO IT NOW
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HOW WAS THAT DIFFERENT?17
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Write down 5 barriers to Agile adoption. As soon as you hit 5, pass the paper to your right. Keep going until you can’t think of anything else. Identify the table’s top three barriers, without talking. 10 minutes total.
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LET’S TRY IT AGAIN
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WHY IS THIS BETTER THAN MAKING YOUR OWN LIST?
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HOW CAN YOU USE THIS?
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Retrospectives - Surveys or Stickies Stand Ups - Slack Release/PI Planning - Stickies and Dot Voting Demos/Showcases - Feedback Sheets
BRAINWRITING IN AGILE TEAMS
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The more ideas the better. Verbal communication comes second. Social aspects of team are still important. This will feel weird at first. Measure your growth.
THINGS TO REMEMBER
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