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Voting: Practical variations

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Practical variations

• When adding up votes, display them in a Pareto Chart to emphasize the distribution and weight of voting.
• Discuss all items which have votes cast against them, even those with only one vote. This helps the team to be more comfortable that all of their selected items have been considered and enables key points to be identified that perhaps only one person has spotted.
• Discuss all items before voting begins. This slows down the process, but ensures clear agreement of what is being voted for. Beware of this becoming a canvassing session.
• Reduce the list before voting by combining similar items. This prevents a big vote being hidden, as several people vote for the same thing in different places.
• Multivoting involves reducing the list in several steps, where:

• Have separate sets of people generating the list and voting on it. This ensures voting will be a more objective exercise.

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