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Ask HN: What's the Alternative to the Dot-Voting?

2 pointsby trzeciover 2 years ago
Hello!<p>Do you know some techniques that can be used instead of dot-voting? (I&#x27;m not referring to more &#x27;official&#x27; methods like MoSCoW or Value&#x2F;Effort matrix - frequently at the stage we don&#x27;t have all data to switch to them).<p>The simplest use case: We have a team retro, where each team member writes a note of some problem has occurred last sprint - then everyone participating to the retro has N votes (3 usually) that are spend of voting of the most important topic to discuss.<p>I believe the dot-voting has a few biases: - members can vote on already most voted item - members vote on their topic - the most common (not necessary most important topic) problem is top-voted<p>So far I didn&#x27;t find any simple but more correct alternative to the dot-voting. Do you share the same problem? Do you have some idea what can be used instead or how the dot-voting can be improved?

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trzeciover 2 years ago
Update: I found a good blog post that states the problem I feel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stephenanderson.medium.com&#x2F;whats-wrong-with-dot-voting-exercises-9f121e20474a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stephenanderson.medium.com&#x2F;whats-wrong-with-dot-voti...</a> with a possible solution it to then.