From the course: Leading Projects
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How to use affinity diagrams
- Defining your challenges and potential solutions is a key pillar of project leadership. But teams sometimes get stuck because they have too many ideas and can't figure out where to start. Let's see how to use affinity diagramming to help your team channel their creativity and clarify the scope of your project. With affinity diagramming, you can quickly transform a large number of divergent ideas into a handful of clearly defined themes. You do it by looking for commonality or affinity between the ideas and then grouping them together. For example, you can lead a brainstorming activity and have everyone write their ideas on sticky notes. Then you transition into an affinity diagramming exercise and move the sticky notes around so that the similar ideas appear near each other in groups or clusters. Let's look at how this would work for H+ Sport. We've said that the problem is that we are not meeting our customer's…
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