Brainstorming

Application - Use - Example - Tools - Templates

Application

Brainstorming is a technique for generating a list of ideas about an issue as lists of:

• Problems
• Potential solutions for a problem
• Gifts for the next birthday party

Use

	Fix the topic, only one topic per session.
	Designate one person to record all ideas on a flipchart or a wallboard.
	do: Offer ideas about the topic. Refrain from any comment. Listen and build on each other's ideas. until: no more ideas on the topic
	Discuss and clearify the ideas.
	Summerize the results, take them down in the minutes.

Example

TOPIC: Potential cause for customer problems

• System is not enough tested.
• Customer does not know what the system is doing.
• There is not enough time to work seriously.
• Service did not configure the system correct.
• Not all system requirements were specified.
• The development process is not supported by case tools.

Tools

No tools required.

Templates

No templates available.

Weisheit

Gegen eine Dummheit, die gerade in Mode ist, kommt keine Klugheit auf.

Theodor Fontane
1819 – 1898
deutscher Schriftsteller

Musikerwitz

Wie viele Basser braucht man, um eine Glühbirne zu wechseln?
Keinen. Das kann der Keyboarder auch mit der linken Hand.