Top 3 (Whiteboard)
Come up with potential ideas while selecting the 3 top priorities or best ideas at the same time
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- Last edited
- Jul 8, 2024
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- Nova
About this process
During ideation, teams can add ideas to a whiteboard, then vote on the top idea. This helps identify the top three ideas to focus on. Before voting, check for similar ideas and remove duplicates.
The process in detail
5 steps- 1
🦸 The Objective.
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🤯 How Might We...
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Take some time to read through them and prioritize them.
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Other Notes & Questions (Optional)
- 5
📂 ⭐⭐⭐ Top 3 Ideas or Proposals (Summary)
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1. 🦸 The Objective.
During this session, our goal is to discuss and brainstorm solutions to effectively [what]. The problem/constraints or blockers seem to be [A] and [B]. Given this, our main principles when defining our solution are the following. But which of them do you think should be non-negotiable?
- Time The solution needs to be implemented within our timeframe.
- Costs Keep costs as low as possible, but consider the cost of missing an opportunity, the return on investment, and how long it takes to achieve a return.
- Feasibility Ensure this is feasible not only technically, but that our team has the right skills and the necessary resources to implement it.
- Excellence Strive for excellence not perfection (business mindset)
- Root of the Problem Focus on solving the root of the problem instead of addressing symptoms or short-term solutions.
- Simplicity Don't overcomplicate things. If it's hard to explain, it's hard to understand, leading to more customer service issues, more training, and higher dropout rates.
- Nice to Have Recognize what is a nice-to-have.
- Who and How Many? A solution for one needs to fit many. Our solution needs to be scalable.
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2. 🤯 How Might We...
Now let's frame the question with a How Might We: "How might we achieve the intended goal and solve the problem?"
I would love to hear your suggestions and ideas, so please use this space to add one idea or suggestion per sticky note.🙏 Please keep it short; if we have questions about the details, we will ask.
3. Take some time to read through them and prioritize them.
Now that all the ideas are there, take some time to read through them and prioritize them. If any seem similar, bring that to people's attention and remove duplicates. We don't want duplicates.
So, what should you do next? You have 3 votes.
4. Other Notes & Questions (Optional)
Next steps, Links, Questions, etc.
5. 📂 ⭐⭐⭐ Top 3 Ideas or Proposals (Summary)
After discussing and identifying the top 3 ideas and proposals, write down the selected ones and provide context and details on how they should work, what the expectations are, why they are important, and anything else that can help you move forward. This is a summary of the collective choices made by the team/stakeholders.
- O3
- | Top 3
- O1 | Goal/Problem
- O2 | Ideas
- Add sticky notes. One idea per sticky note.
- During this session, our goal is to discuss and brainstorm solutions to effectively [what]. The problem/constraints or blockers seem to be [A] and [B].
- O4 | Summary