Brainstorming Techniques

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Running the same brainstorm format every time produces the same ideas from the same three people, which teams mistake for having explored the problem. Draw a technique instead and the constraint does the work: asking a group to deliberately design the worst possible solution surfaces more than an hour of open discussion ever does. Twenty-five methods, most runnable in under twenty minutes with sticky notes and a wall. Facilitators should draw before the session, not during.