If your team has a tendency to follow the most vocal Salesperson, you can use an alternate method and do a Silent Review. The way this works is each person hangs their sketch on the wall, the team spends 5 minutes reading and viewing the sketches silently, and then the facilitator holds a discussion of each sketch. For this method to be effective, it is important to give everyone enough time in the Sketch phase to create well-articulated sketches that can stand on their own without explanation.

Directions:

Time: 5 min silent review, 3 minute discussion per person, 10 min voting
Activity: Individual

1. Hang everyone’s sketches up on a wall in the same way art is presented in a gallery or museum.
2. The team spends 5 minutes viewing and reading the sketches.
3. The Facilitator leads a discussion of each sketch, allocating 3 minutes per sketch.
4. Review the business problem, the goals, and success metrics so everyone knows what the voting criteria is and remind the team this is a deciding vote.
5. Give each team member 3 votes.