Workshop Exercises: Decide
Heatmap Voting
Visually indicate the winning idea by creating a heatmap of opinions
Why: Identify areas of agreement within a group by providing a clear visual representation of the collective consensus
When: Useful to quickly determine the most favored idea or option among a group
Instructions for running this play
- Generate ideas or list a set of alternatives and put them on individual sticky notes on the same surface.
- Consider removing duplicates and clustering ideas through Affinity Mapping.
- Hand out a set of small dot stickers to each participant โ smaller than those used in the Dot Voting exercise.
- Clarify voting constraints. Explain
- Why you are holding a vote
- How you will act on the outcome
- What criteria participants should base their vote on (business problem, goals, expertise or ownership?)
- Participants can use as many votes as they need to vote for particular features (for example in a feature sketch) as they need.
- Make it clear to participants that they are not voting for an entire solution, idea, or sketch, but for features within it.
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