Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach

Chapter 11. Brainstorming and Idea Reduction

Key Points

• Brainstorming involves both idea generation and idea reduction.

• The most creative, innovative ideas often result from combining multiple, seemingly unrelated ideas.

• Various voting techniques may be used to prioritize the idea created.

• Although live brainstorming is preferred, Web-based brainstorming may be a viable alternative in some situations.

Whether you are in the workshop setting of Chapter 10 or whenever you find yourself needing new ideas or creative solutions to problems, brainstorming is a very useful technique. It's simple, easy to do, and fun.

In the workshop setting, you probably already have a pretty good idea of the features of the new product. After all, few projects start out with ...