Fifteen common decision-making methods
Jurgen Appelo
Writer, Speaker, Entrepreneur in Agility, Innovation, and Leadership. Creator of the unFIX Model and Management 3.0, Author of the sci-fi novel Glitches of Gods. Slightly anarchistic, autistic, and eccentric.
How does a self-organizing team make decisions together? Should they just talk until they agree? Should everyone get a vote? And when they vote, is every vote the same?
In group decision-making, there are many options for coming to a decision about something. Let’s take a moment to review and compare the most popular methods. Download fifteen decision-making methods (free sign-up needed.)
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I used my free time in Colombia to find standard decision-making methods for autonomous teams, and I turned those into a colorful set of pictures. I hope this will be useful for coaches, consultants, and managers who work with self-organizing teams. The images are available for?download?in the unFIX community (free sign-up required). Also, check out the two articles I wrote about?power distribution?and?weighted voting?with these decision-making techniques.
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1 年Great visualization! ???? But what's the difference between "Dot-voting" and "Plurality" in your illustration?
Scrum Master at Alliander
2 年Nice one! What do the X's and the ='s mean though? Something like centralised decision making vs democratic one?
Founder XSCALE Alliance. Author "the agile way".
2 年And then there's the sixteenth. Which actually works ;-) https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/leadership-service-peter-merel/
Change Agent, Agile Coach , Scrum Master , Trainer
2 年Great visual .. Love the fact that this allows people to see a broader spectrum of decision making perspectives beyond the classic go to by default (consensus or dot voting ,etc...) I am a big fan of Consent over consensus because it shifts the burden to objectors. If the proposal is safe enough to try with no reasoned, substantial objections, then our default position is to proceed. Reaching consent is much easier than consensus while still enabling buy-in and multiple perspectives. Very much interested in testing consensus mix with a weighted voting ..???? Learning something new here :) Awesome thank you ????
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2 年In my experience, voting brings the most frustration leaving a sentiment of unfairness to those who "lost" and feel unheard, and consensus is what results in the most effective choice because those who disagree have to develop arguments to try to convince others, and most often it results in an alternative solution that nobody objects to. That's particularly true in decentralized opensource projects where it's important to be sure that all participants share the same view. As an extra benefit, it trains people to accept to change their mind, and to accept collective failures and work on fixing them. However consensus doesn't move fast and requires some autonomy for the upfront research parts.