The retrospective process - VOTE
Vote on the ideas you'd like to discuss
Your team can vote for ideas or groups that they would most like to discuss further. Each participant starts with a fixed number of dot votes which they can then allocate across the ideas.
As a facilitator, you can:
- Change the number of votes or make it infinite, depending on the number of ideas, time available, and level of complexity.
- Decide whether you want to VOTE ON groups or individual ideas in groups.
- Allow people to vote multiple times per idea or LIMIT PER IDEA per participant.
- Alternatively, LIMIT PER TOPIC to ensure votes are distribute fairly across all topics.
- Enable MUST CAST ALL VOTES if you wish participants to allocate all vote before moving on.
- Set votes as UNLIMITED FACILITATOR VOTES if you simply want it to record a number via a physical count (e.g. raised hands).
RESET EVERYONE'S VOTES.
Votes are generally done independently, but you could manage the visibility and timing of when votes are shown to engage the team in different ways:
- REVEAL VOTES IN NEXT STEP if you want to keep voting anonymous and avoid group-think.
- REVEAL VOTES IMMEDIATELY so that votes are shown as they are cast - this can be an effective way of encouraging participants to allocate their votes quickly.
Additionally, participants can now click I'M FINISHED if they do not wish to cast all of their votes.
Abstaining
A participant can also choose to ABSTAIN from voting if they wish to not take part. In doing so, it will be considered as if they had finished voting but also be highlighted in the side bar as a label next to the member.
This will be reflected in the meeting summary in the CLOSE stage which will show how many people voted. They will not be considered as part of the voting process and hence not reported on.
