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Lightning Decision Jam
An exercise to solve any problem, without unstructured discussions.
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When to use
You want to erase friction in your team and address issues proactively.
Why you should
To quickly find solutions to problems that are preventing your team from doing your best.
What you get
Alignment around solutions to the most pressing solutions.
Steps to take
Start with problems (7 min): Everybody individually write down all the challenges, annoyances, mistakes or concerns that they have.
Present problems (4 min per person): One person at the time very quickly present their problems and stick them to a board. Nobody else is allowed to speak.
Select problems to solve (6 min) Each member gets 2 voting dots - Everybody must now vote on the challenges the consider to be the most pertinent to solve, without discussion. You can vote on your own postit, and you can also vote twice on the same.
Reframe the problem as standardised challenges (6 min): The moderator rewrites the prioritised problems as HMW-questions. E.g.: How might we make sure everyone knows what our top prio tasks are? Move over the dot votes from step 3 and the problems.
Produce solutions (7 min): Take the top voted problem's HMW-sentence, and work individually to come up with possible solutions.
Vote on solutions (10 min): Each team member gets 6 dot votes and solve on the solutions they think best addresses the HMW.
Further reading
Be strict on prioritisation of problems and How Might We's. We can't address all of them at once, but if you feel that several of theHow Might We should be addressed, you can repeat step 5 and 6.