Design It!

Activity 1

Choose One Thing

Discuss priorities with stakeholders by presenting them with an extreme choice: if you only get one thing, what will it be? This activity can help stakeholders make decisions when facing difficult trade-offs.

Benefits

• Clearly communicates, this is more important than that.

• Starts a conversation about why a certain choice was made and what would need to change for stakeholders to change their mind.

• Makes it obvious when stakeholders disagree.

Participants

All stakeholders

Preparation and Materials

• List of alternatives, such as quality attributes, or other difficult trade-offs, such as cost, schedule, and features.

Steps

1. Explain the rules of the game. Stakeholders may choose only one of the presented options. Remind participants ...