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Will definitely try! Here's the summary: 1. Without talking, using sticky notes, ideate as many problems current problems / challenges for 7 minutes 2. Each member of group, 1 by 1 explain quickly each of their problems (max 30 sec) 3. Each person will vote using 2 colored dots on what they feel are the biggest problems (can be used on same sticky note) 4. Moderator will place problems in order of priority 5. Standardize each challenge using “How might we make ____” 6. Without talking, ideate as many solutions for the top voted challenges for 7 minutes ⁃ Moderator there to attempt to help group produce as many ideas a possible 7. Solutions placed on wall as fast as possible, don’t overthink, don’t try to be neat 8. Each member will get 6 colored dots to vote, without discussing 9. Sort prioritized solutions 10. On a Impact vs Effort Graph, the group will determine higher/lower on graph without discussing very much 12. Sweet spot is Low Effort, High Impact ⁃ Moderator will mark these with a colored dot 13. Moderator will ask member who ideated the solution to create an actionable item that can work in the short term

I finally got to have your channel. Thanks for the weekly podcast and all the inspiration I get from you! After the Sprint book, this is a very practical video. Thanks, Jonathan!

Starting a sprint week tomorrow and this video has been very helpful in giving me some better tools to use in getting to consensus. Thanks!

"Cutting out unstructured discussion..." THAT'S BRILLIANT and so simple. I been working for 5 years now and I really hate going to meeting where it will drag on for hours with no actual results or conclusion. Then we still get the same problems throughout the week. And the same meeting about the same problems the week after. Just people bickering. It's the exact contrast of what it was like during debate time in Model UN back in high school and college. Because it was structured and the people were disciplined. I enjoyed the Model UN meetings and conferences because we felt like we were solving real life problems even though they were just simulations. Lots of companies and people in the top management need to go back to the basics and really get things back in order.

@AJSmart

4 жыл бұрын

This is one of the main benefits of the Sprint process! It cuts out all the clutter and gives a clear framework to operate from. Agree with your points too!

Some great advice here! Thanks for sharing. Avoiding circular conversations is key!

Your videos are not only super informative but also so hilarious LOL. Love you guys!

Great stuff! Thanks for making the video and providing us a good process to solve problems :)

you guys are absolutely awesome, you people and your videos are my product design guru.

Thank you for sharing this exercise! Especially the fact that you enable people to actually find solutions instead of let them talking the whole meeting. Love it

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for the feedback! There's nothing we hate more than a long drawn out meeting ;) Glad you found it helpful!!

Thanks for the video! This method seems to blend pretty nicely into s SCRUM sprint.

The best video on KZread!

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Rocky Hox oh wow, thanks for that ❤️

Love this video, it was really helpful and problem solving sessions like that seems really easy :) thanks!

@mikebelmont5919

6 жыл бұрын

I'm working on ux research app with my friend right now - I would love to hear some opinions :) blog.prototypr.io/ux-missing-piece-5f501d59d1f0

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michal! We've got loads where that came from :) Stay tuned for more!

I love the way you structure this way of solving problems. It is so logic and intuitive. Most of the time we imagine the solution, but skip the problem statement, making it more difficult to put solutions down from our mind into something tangible. It’s even worse when feeling overwhelmed by problems, and not knowing how and where to start.

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly Carlos, thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed!

Really efficient looking forward to applying this exercice with my next project

Really interesting. Reminds me of the sprint retrospective process but applied to any problem.

I love all of this. Brilliant!

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Love it!!!! Just used with my students from Innovation. We are going to run a sprint on social challenges and used the LDJ to choose which social project to choose. It was amazing how many good ideas showed up!!!

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Patricia Fachini Pontalti love hearing that!

Thanks for this❤

Love it, this is how UX people should be, we are in the agencies to solve problems quickly all the time because nowadays time changed.

AWESOME!!!

Great video! Thank you for sharing! How much time would you allocate for this exercise?

awesome!thanks

You are just the best LOL! Thanks for this.

Great video, guys!!!!! Really nice sharing! Impact x Effort Matrix was familiar due to my Lean Six Sigma background, but loved the way it was build here! Also really really good explanations, Jonathan!

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

cheers Patricia!

thanks! Such a cool channel! :-) Really digging into it and taking this to my business & community again! :-) awesome!

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks !

Excellent vid, watched it yesterday, used technique today!

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Nice! Glad it was helpful!

Great video! As a facilitator I always group ideas by topic before voting, makes the process faster and avoids overlapping of ideas Also I don´t recommend the facilitator to participate in the activities (unless doing activities such as co-creation), the facilitation should be as unbias as possible and just guide the conversation :)

Thank you, it is very helpful, please post more

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

ylich uribe Thank you for taking the time to comment 👍- I am working on more!

This one just went strictly in to my brain .where do u even get this ideas braaa

You speak from my heart! Unstructured, useless waffling is a red flag for me.

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Archibald!

@agnessowdagar2794

3 жыл бұрын

Hastiematti

Great video and amazing insight! Just wondering how effective is this compared to surveys? Since this is more internally done unlike surveys which is with random, unfamiliar people.

Most useful video I've watched on KZread. Ever.

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gabriella!!

great video and insights!

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hobbes!

Great as always, where can buy this timer watch.?

Im excited thanks :-)

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Jamal Khan glad to hear it Jamal :-)

Very interesting, thank you very much for creating and sharing content like this :)

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ulysse!

Really good video, helped me alot! Also you cute..and funny 🤓 Thanks a lot, keep up the good work! ^^

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Cansu!

thank you for sharing 🤩

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

thank YOU for watching :)

That's a great explanation! Is there any limit to the team to do this exercise?

It's like a dream job! I will dedicate my life to get to this lvl and further)

@AJSmart

2 жыл бұрын

Go for it!

Cool video! I'm using exactly same process with my teams. Some time after I start with this mindset its spread throughout the company :)

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

Vitor Guerra great to hear! You're doing exactly the same exercises? Even the same order? Would love to get more detail and compare processes 💪

@VitorGuerraVideos

7 жыл бұрын

There is maybe one more step. As moderator I usually try to make clusters with similar ideas before all the voting :) To me the silent brainstorm has one more benefit: it hides egos and roles. When nobody speaks there is no inhibition and no hierarchy. Although I do believe in the decider role, when you're in the middle of a brainstorm I don't think this is the right time to using this resource. PS.: One more thing! Sadly it's impossible to buy Magic Paper here in Brazil :(

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

YES YES YES! I SHOULD have mentioned the ego thing but you are 100% right my friend.

Very helpfull

Thanks for the video Jon, I really like all of them. Quick question, how can you measure the impact of a solution/story if it hasn't yet been executed?

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

It's the "assumed impact" not to actual impact. So you have to guess. Thanks!!!!!

love that channel

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I want to work at a company like this 💯

To clarify, do you build solutions for the rest of the top HMWs after you finish building solution for the first one? or you completely ignore the others even if there was one more sticky with the same number of dots and you chose the left? Thanks!

This would be a dream job. Seriously.

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Aww thanks Jiwon, very kind! Keep watching our Instagram as we advertise roles there sometimes!

Love this video! I want to ask, is there any paperless/digital board alternatives to this kind of discussion? Thank you very much

@Metal_Face_Doom

4 жыл бұрын

Try Mural

Wow This gold thanks

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Hey Jonathan, do you start the LDJ with a problem or just telling them to write every problem in general??

on the high impact scale, you mentioned participants only supposed to say higher or lower to determine impact. How do you determine the effort? should you ask them left or right?

You got a new Subscriber bcoz of this Video...Great work

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

YES!

Good content. Btw usually for product design context, the solution need to be tested. But, how if we want to apply it for something thats not designing a product or a testable object. Like the example in this video. How to verify?

Fantastic exercise! Was the camera person a bit tipsy at the time? ;-)

Great video, thanks, very helpful and step-by-step! Would love to know what the song in the background of the video is - could you point me to it? It would work for my workshop, too :)

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Dagmara, we can't recall the specific song that's playing, but we have a playlist of all our workshop music here: open.spotify.com/user/1226352862/playlist/77nygiSkxHaqjOFZVOhlS6?si=HYKoXFimREeU1j9T8Gt0aQ It may be in here, if not this is a great playlist for the various Sprint exercises! Enjoy!

I enjoyed the process, it's like a slightly modified version of Google Venture's Design Sprint. One question I have is, how do you come up with the feature set for MVP based on the solution that has been suggested?

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

You're exactly right, I use this LDJ exercise when I'm teaching people the principles of Design Sprints. This isn't exactly the perfect exercise for coming up with an MVP feature set, for that i'd run an actual 1 week sprint :)

Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing such inspiring content! Two short questions: Imagine you have a team with quite different mindsets, for example managers vs designers. Would you recommend holding two seperate sessions? Do you have any experiences about the maximum amout of people you can do such a workshop? Thanks and cheers

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Hans, thanks for the comment. I often do this exercise with up to 100 people split into smaller teams of 7 or 8

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, and to your first question: this exercise works well even if everyone has different opinions.

@serialgfx

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much - keep it up, you're doing some really awesome stuff for the community! (:

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Hans Dampf 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

Where do you get the "magic paper" from? link?

4:37 hahah man i was focusing on what you saying until you made me laugh so hard hahahaha :D

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA wohoooo! It was so damn early in the morning and I couldn't stay serious :D

This is very similar to IBM Design Thinking and better ;)

Sooooooo goooooooood

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Does this work for generating product ideas for startups?

In my company, we have a ritual that all in my Team give a talk on a specific topic. I’ve a task now to find new topics and assign to colleagues. I’d like to have a meeting to brainstorm and assign topics. Does LDJ fit this purpose?

Hey what's the best university in Germany for Masters in HCI or UX Design equivalent major?

Good video. Thanks for sharing it. One question though: why prioritize solutions before the effort and impact matrix because those are aiming for the same thing?

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Jaakko! Thanks for watching! We prioritize solutions based on the voting round with the team. Then we put the top voted solutions on the effort impact scale to decide what to move forward with! We don't really want to put all the solutions on the effort/impact if people don't think they are good at solving our challenge! Maybe you could try it the other way around and let us know how it goes! Could be an interesting experiment :)

@JaakkoPalokangas

6 жыл бұрын

Hi AJ&Smart. Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking of just doing either dot voting or impact effort scale although I get the idea of this two stage prioritisation. I understand that when you're doing just dot voting, people probably think just impact, not effort, when they are voting. On the other hand, I&E matrix can be too consuming for large number of solutions. Anyways, I'll give it a try for the sake of experiment and let you know how it went.

My workplace does this. it works fine for some things. but we have deeper, systemic problems that management is not aware of and because they only ever solve the top five problems and they never consult grunt workers (or listen very well when they do), we will always end up right back where we were. so, that's exactly what happens. we keep cycling and cycling and they keep having Kaizen events and never really getting past a certain point because the real problem is always buried underneath the more "urgent" one. it's like treating a headache instead of cutting out the brain cancer so I would argue that if you are using this in your personal life or as an entrepreneur with a small team, exercise caution. it may be used as a method to disguise an uncomfortable truth (the real truth in my particular case is that we are working with faulty and sometimes outright broken quality metrics that are outdated and not necessarily industry standard. It adds thousands of additional steps per day per person and makes our product less useable. also the images used to produce our parts were drafted by unpaid interns and are frequently poorly researched and continually fought over between departments and locations. We need to get properly trained, adequately paid employees to audit the designs and broadly address the fact that we are using metrics from 2003 when the product was designed in 2019. the work-arounds that individual employees invent and then share with each other and the meetings that we have impromptu to share tips for managing our managers from beneath them almost exclusively exist in service of the product and making it the best it can be in spite of this pervasive and inadequate and almost all-encompassing lack of adequate metrics that exist almost entirely because no one wants to go out and find an expert and then pay them properly) (and then various people will weaponize the quality team because they know how to use the inadequate metrics to pick on individual employees or champion their own whatever it is by generating the right paperwork, but that's a whole different tale of woe stemming from but probably not the same problem. that ones probably more organic and exclusively because humans are kind of a mess

Nice video. So let me give you a scenario. It's a small team of 5 people, they write 10 problems each in 7 minutes, ending up with 50 problems. Since each gets 2 red dots, there would be 10 red dots to go along all the problems. So what happens if you end up with 10 post-its with one red dot each and 40 without a dot. How do you choose the top 3-4 ones? You take all 10 with 1 dot?

Hey AJ & Smart! I love your videos! Please keep them comming! =D Why do you say that the "Time Timer" is not that great? :) I thought that was one of the essential things in a sprint! Perhaps you could make a video called "Sprinting Gear" haha :'D and go through what you think is 2.0 and why :)

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Time timers are good!! but we get annoyed with them because they stop working all the time- just a little unreliable, that's all :)

@ThePwnagealle

6 жыл бұрын

Aaha! Got it! :')

I don't fully understand why the only choice of actions is from the holding-back part and nothing from the moving-us-forward part. Shouldn't most goals come from the moving-us-forward part? For the holding-back part isn't there a HMWLGOI (how might we let go of it) exercise somewhere?

WHERE DID YOU BUY THE MAGIC PAPER! OMG

Is there a limit to the number of participants involved in this exercise before it becomes unwieldy, or is it scalable to, say, 25 people?

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Teams should be max 7 people but you can have as many teams as you like! We've done 150 people before!

@Prince-gh2qf

4 жыл бұрын

@@AJSmart Can an individual perform this process to achieve some goal at small scale?

Hi, this is great but how do I moderate LRJ with half of my team in another location. We usually do everything over Skype and it would be a massive challenge...Any ideas? Thanks!

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Bea! You're actually the second person to ask about remote LRJ today - wohoo! There's no doubt that it will be tricky and to be 100% honest I haven't tried a remote version of it. My hunch is that the only real difficulty will be voting on the "challenges" and "solutions". So, yeah - the voting part. I would suggest an experiment: Run the LRJ exercise and have somebody very quickly write each of the challenge postits into a Google doc. The voting can happen inside the Google doc. The same can happen for the solutions. Of course this will slow everything down a little and you will need a dedicated person... I'm going to make a video soon once I really try this out, or if you try it, please keep me updated. Thanks for your comment, Jonathan

@jonathancourtney1175

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Francis, thanks for the useful advice. I personally have not found video conferencing and Mural useful - but I'm glad to hear other people do!

What would you do if two people keep saying up and down on the impact-effort positioning? Or do they get to say a direction only once? Or one up-down and one left-right? That wasn't clear.

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

Hey, great question: To be honest the answer is that the Moderator needs to make sure it doesn't happen by being strict with the timing. Saying things like "We need to move on in the next 30 seconds" or the very cheeky "lets just place this and we'll come back to it" can help keep up the momentum. Then you can come back to the "difficult" one at the end. I rarely have the problem that we cannot decide on the E/I scale because I make it clear that it's just our assumption of the Effort and Impact, not the reality.

@tamasr

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

juju amazing

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Good video but you should always introduce the 'x' axis first, then introduce the 'y' once an initial order has been established. Having both simultaneously confuses and potentially leads.

@AJSmart

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Do you group similar solutions together prior to voting?

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Jameel Somji not necessary but a nice to have if you have a lot of time

@jameels227

6 жыл бұрын

AJ&Smart thx so much. Love your videos. I learn so much from them! Bigs thanks to you :)

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Jameel Somji thank you for watching!!! ❤️

That poster on the wall tho***

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

8:40 can I please get a link to purchase this from

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Here you go: Magic Paper www.amazon.com/GoWrite-Self-A... If that link doesn't work, you can check the description of this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mZZ1mJWsYbXffrQ.html Hope that helps (P.S. How did you find this video??)

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

This link should work for sure: www.amazon.com/GoWrite-Self-Adhesive-24-Inches-20-Feet-AR2420/dp/B00377TWSE/ref=sr_1_6?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1499775971&sr=1-6&keywords=magic+whiteboard

I did for a company a 90 minute workshop. There were two groups seven of each. One of the group chose the problem: "tone of voice" Some people were not respectful. We created this HMW: How could everyone feel respected? We gathered some ideas for this, but the people came up with things like: patience, self controll. Which don't seem like ideas about how to solve the issue. What would you suggest in a case like this? What is your view?

@AJSmart

Жыл бұрын

Hey Balázs! We would need a bit more information to help you with this. What challenge were you workshopping ("Tone of voice" of what?)

@balazstivadar8631

Жыл бұрын

@@AJSmart Thank you for your reply. So it was a general workshop. We started with the positives as outlined in The Workshopper book, then collected problems, voted etc. One of the most voted problems was "tone of voice" which was refering to the fact that some colleagues perceived some others disrespectful. Then we started collecting ideas for this issue. And instead of workable ideas, some wrote "Patience", "Self-control". All in all, the so-called solution ideas were like these ones mainly.

Can LDJ workshops be done online?

@AJSmart

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! we explain how in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yp2Ks7uBeKa6lpM.html

3:37 dude WHAT IS THIS PAINTING WITH THE NAKED GUY SMOKING NEAR A FIREPLACE?

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

HAhahahaa! WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG FOR SOMEONE TO NOTICE THIS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? My question to you is: Why isn't this painting everywhere?!

@wise_nut

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't even recognize it lol

@brunolucena8711

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA amazing

Nice exercise :) Can't find your playlist though :/

@AlgirdasArmonavicius

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Algirdas, thanks! We're still just starting out with our KZread channel so we're SLOWWWLY building up playlists :)

@AlgirdasArmonavicius

7 жыл бұрын

Will be waiting on new tips and tricks :) I also work with UI/UX. At this moment we are only a team of two designers based in Lithuania. However we are slowly working and growing our third team member :) So again thanks for the tips, we are really implementing some of them :)

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

That's great! What other videos would help you? How about "How to grow a Design Company?" Just as an idea..

@AlgirdasArmonavicius

7 жыл бұрын

Well I have to talk to clients from time to time and I want to do it better. So my problem is on a first meeting with a client what question should/must be asked to understand what client wants and how can we achieve those goals :)

From a planets point of view, one of the concerns the globe might have surrounds the whiteboard sheets and post its and whether they're recyclable. If not, can a post it be put up saying 'in a year, we send X amount of materials to the landfill and the planet has concerns'. Videos 8/10 Presenting style 9/10 Speed 7/10 ✌️

5:56 "only gonna focus on the top voted hmws" - previous step no voiting was done. How is it so?

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

The magic of editing

@delosssh

6 жыл бұрын

AJ&Smart so there was voting on previous step?

Getting your team and organization to fully understand and utilize this process is the first issue most of us will have to tackle. How to Design Sprint 'How to Design Sprint?'?

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

haha! This exercise should help your team understand how quickly you can come up with actionable ideas without talking to each other... we've tested it like crazy, and iterated it! So... we've already done the "design sprint" on design sprints? haha!

What to do if some problems and solutions written by the participants are the same?

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

If they are EXACTLY the same, then you can just put one post-it over the other! But if they are slightly different, make sure to keep them separate.

what if everyone put only one sticker on each of the problems, resulting in a draw?

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Kalmykov rarely happens - but in that case you either give everyone 2 more dots OR you nominate a "decider" from the group and give them 2 more dots.

@schimenykrikets9692

7 жыл бұрын

perfect thanks!

The problem being addressed in this session is "Improving a Design Team".

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Hahah!

You are describing the Sprint process from by Braden Kowitz, Jake Knapp, and John Zeratsky. You might consider giving credit where it is due.

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

D G D first of all: check the article, or anything I write, I'm constantly giving credit to the guys who wrote Sprint, I even write for their Sprint blog. Second, read the book, this isn't an exercise - but uses many similar principles.

@AJSmart

7 жыл бұрын

D G D Also, one more thing, instead of looking out for what's wrong, maybe next time just enjoy what you're watching and try to take something from it.

@hibiscusflower5911

6 жыл бұрын

I thought it might be the IBM Design Thinking process...

Cut down the music when u explain, it will look more aesthetic.

50% of my time goes away in meetings :/ meetings meetings sigh

how whack was that timer, time goes anti clockwise

why wouldn't you stick the magic paper to the other side of the glass? Save Trees

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Lemme try that!

Dont they need to present their solutions first before vote on the solutions so make sure everyone is really understand the solution?

Why is it important not to discuss about the ideas?

@AJSmart

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Gregory! The whole idea of this exercise is to completely eliminate any unnecessary discussion. We've found that discussion rarely leads to better understanding or a decision. Instead of discussing what idea is best, why not leave it up to an anonymous vote?! :) You should try it and see for yourself!

Could you remove the background music? That is too noisy

@AJSmart

5 жыл бұрын

Hey apologies if you found the music distracting. There's an updated Lightning Decision Jam video available that might be of interest to you though : kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZWecpNCTqtKscco.html Hope this helps!

I'm not entirely sure what this has to do with product design. Being primarily a team health management vehicle, pretty much nothing if you ask me. Thankfully, I realized what's going on no more than 3 minutes in, so I didn't waste a quarter of an hour of my life on something I've been already doing for ages and know doesn't apply. Well, brainstorming can apply to basically any problem solving, but first, that's not the same as this whole process, and second, this version is usually not really advisable.

@FruitSn4x

Жыл бұрын

What would you advise friend? Or are you just pontificating because you have no idea?

@bencesarosi7718

Жыл бұрын

@@FruitSn4x What's there to advise regarding irrelevant content, other than not publishing it? And why'd I bother giving any advice about a suboptimal implementation of a simple retrospective I stumbled upon over a month ago while I was looking for something completely different? Sure, I have no idea, other than having literally spent decades doing meetings like this. I figure I might as well have one advice for you: Grow up and get a proper job.

Awesome and insightful video. THank you. P.S That laugh/noise kills every time 🤣 kzread.info/dash/bejne/qoKkuMOHebi5ZLg.html