Group Creativity Technique

This technique is used to collect and or to exchange information by involving many stakeholders. Some of the techniques under this category are Brainstorming, Nominal Group Technique, Idea or Mind mapping, Affinity diagram and Multi decision analysis.

Brainstorming is generating ideas. One idea generates another idea. Here just the ideas or the requirements will be collected and no voting is carried out.

Nominal Group Technique is the extension of Brainstorming. Here voting is used which helps in further brainstorming and also prioritization.

Idea or the Mind mapping is just a graphical representation of all the ideas which helps in understanding commonality and differences and can results in further ideas.

Affinity diagram helps in groups the ideas under different buckets so that this can help in further analysis.

Multi decision analysis is extension of all the above techniques which helps in analyzing from the risk angle.

Group Creativity Technique is used under the process Collect Requirements.