At our recent TPG offsite, we agreed to a new tool for measuring gradients of agreement of individuals, as related to some idea or proposal.
This tool can be used when an idea is first introduced, before discussion, to determine what type of discussion (if any) is needed. For those of you familiar with IETF "humming", this can serve a similar (but richer) function. It can also be used after discussion, as a kind of "vote" to determine whether or not the group has sufficient consensus to move forward. In brief, the available options are: Need more info, No, Neutral, Yes, Abstain/Don't care. For clarity, these are arranged in a little grid, rather than on a single-dimensional line. The details are documented here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Team_Norms#Gradients_of_Agreement For completeness, the work of documenting this was tracked in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136456 NOTE: I'm sharing this with the public list, because although it is currently an internal tool, if it works well as we experiment with it, we might start to use it outside our team. Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
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