Brainwriting

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Brainwriting is a great method to produce many new ideas of the solution by giving time and bigger privacy to express own selves. It also includes all team members and gives everybody a chance to simultaneously join with their own ideas and upgrade the previous ideas.

What can you do?
Each participant gets their own blank template divided into three (or more) boxes.

Now generate ideas individually – you have 5 to 7 minutes to fill your first box with indications on possible solution to the problem. Keep in mind to be daring – there is no right or wrong answers and even the craziest ideas may eventually lead to a potentially ground-breaking perspective.

After the first box is filled, everybody passes the template to their neighbor clockwise. You should consider the idea on the received template and continue with generating the ideas by expanding the colleague’s idea or starting from scratch with a new proposal.

After 7 minutes, templates are passed again, and the process repeats until the whole template is filled.

Then all of you begin to examine and discuss the products of the brainwriting session.

For the example of this method, watch this.

Example Template