We've also used the post-it approach, with good results, but we also allow for an initial round of anonymous comments so that sensitive comments can also be aired. They're screened and transcribed by the project manager before the meeting.
I might also suggest a "pre-mortem." I read about it in the excellent "Sources of Power" and have only used it once -- but it is now part of my PM toolbox. The idea is that instead of learning the hard lessons from reality at the end of the project, the project manager asks team members to imagine likely failure points at the beginning. The seed for the meeting is: "Imagine it's 10mo from now and the project failed. Why did it fail?" In the instance that I used this approach, it was exactly the question needed to prompt a quiet, but critical, team member to voice concerns that would have certainly come to fruition. It was much more valuable than hearing a nicely summarized version at the end of a disaster zone. -Sarah Kampman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24300 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
