Agile Teams need to make small decisions frequently. Many teams experiment with majority rules and quickly discover that it’s a way to ensure a few team members feel ignored. Usually it’s the quiet people who get missed.
For Yes/No decisions both Fist of five and Decider protocol can work well. Dot voting is a tool for prioritizing among a group of items.
Why are Group Decision-making Techniques Important?
A Rebuttal of Groupthink
Other Resource Links:
- 27 Decision-making Techniques and Activities for Deciding Together
- Decision Making Systems Matter
- Delegation Matrix for High Performance Teams
- Four Quick Ways to Gain or Assess Team Consensus
- Learning with Fist of Five Voting
- Manifold’s Decision Making Process – elegant because it shows how to make decisions in differing contexts
Books
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Mark Levison has been helping Scrum teams and organizations with Agile, Scrum and Kanban style approaches since 2001. From certified scrum master training to custom Agile courses, he has helped well over 8,000 individuals, earning him respect and top rated reviews as one of the pioneers within the industry, as well as a raft of certifications from the ScrumAlliance. Mark has been a speaker at various Agile Conferences for more than 20 years, and is a published Scrum author with eBooks as well as articles on InfoQ.com, ScrumAlliance.org an AgileAlliance.org.
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