Group organization is an essential part of the KJ method to produce useful effects. However, many people do it in the wrong way. It makes the work of the KJ method useless.
You should not classify pieces top-down. You need to organize groups bottom-up. In these two ways, the direction of processing is the opposite.
Moreover, you do not have to be objective. Creation is subjective.
- (5.2.4.0) concrete example of group organization
- (5.2.4.1) Group organization is not objective
- (5.2.4.2) Group organization is not a hierarchical classification
- (5.2.4.3) Problem of using existing classification criteria
- (5.2.4.4) Problem of making classification criteria in advance
- (5.2.4.5) Benefits of reducing burden by classification
- (Column) Efficiency improvement by framework