Software Endgames: Eliminating Defects, Controlling Change, and the Countdown to On-Time Delivery

Appendix C: Sticky Note Guidelines

If you’re going to use the collaborative planning techniques with some form of sticky note brainstorming, then you should develop a set of guidelines for the effort. I use the following in my own brainstorming efforts and thought I would include them as an example. I have broken up the guidelines according to the key roles in the process.

Note-Generator Guidelines

• The initial strategy is to generate and capture as many notes or data items as possible.

• Don’t worry about the quality of the notes—spelling, neatness, correctness, and so on. That can be fixed later.

• Don’t categorize the notes.

• Capture one idea, concept, task, risk, issue, requirement, function, or object per note.

• Use large script, and ...