Group Decision Making Technique

This technique is used to generate, classify and prioritize the requirements which help in making decision about future outcome. This technique works in close with group creativity technique.

There are different ways how one can arrive at the decision. The methods followed will be in the order Unanimity, Majority, Plurality and Dictatorship.

Unanimity is nothing but all the stakeholders agrees for a particular action or requirement. Before applying unanimity, better to apply the anonymous. Anonymous is collecting the requirements from all the stakeholders in a different forum individually in secret. Anonymous is also called as Delhi technique. Once Delphi technique is achieved then unanimity becomes easier.

If unanimity is not working go for Majority. Majority is nothing but where more than 50% of the people are agreeing for the requirement.

Next is Plurality. When Majority is not achieved largest blocks in the group decides which is similar to elections in democratic countries.

Dictatorship is one individual makes the decision on the behalf of the group. This is used when none of the above helps.

Group Decision Making Technique is used under the processes Collect requirements, Validate Scope, Estimate Activity Durations and Estimate Costs processes.