Tips & Tricks

Here are some tips & tricks when running a 635 Brainwriting session:

• For complex problems, it is suggested to have a moderator.
• The template for the documentation should be uniformly designed / duplicated.
• No one should write down their name on the sheets. Ideally, this is an anonymous method. Of course, it can happen that the participants know each other well and can assign the different writing styles to individual colleagues. Nevertheless, the aim is to find ideas together and evaluate them independently of the author.
• Uniform pens with identical colours should be used.
• In later rounds, finding ideas may take a little longer than at the beginning of brainwriting. Here it is up to the moderator to provide a little more time.
• It’s better to involve people from different e.g. areas, functions, departments, experience, depending on the team.  This gives you a better range of ideas and angles of approach to the brief.
• It is strongly suggested not to allow any talking during the session, until all ideas have been recorded! This allows participants to interpret other ideas solely from what is recorded on the worksheet.
• If you use a cloud storage service or any other cloud service where you can collaborate and write together on the same document or a shared document, you can do this method also remotely.