The KJ-Technique: A Group Process for Establishing Priorities

By Jared Spool

October 19th, 2016

This week, we revisit my article on using the KJ Method to help groups establish priorities.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

In design, our resources are limited. Priorities become a necessity. We need to ensure we are working on the most important parts of the problem. How do we assess what is most important?

For this, we’ve turned to a group consensus technique we’ve been using for years, called a KJ-Method (also sometimes referred to as an “affinity diagram”). The KJ-Method, named for its inventor, Jiro Kawakita (the Japanese put their last names first), allows groups to quickly reach a consensus on priorities of subjective, qualitative data.

Read the article: The KJ-Technique: A Group Process for Establishing Priorities

How do you reach consensus with your teams? Let us know below.

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