First, write your own.

• On whether sticky notes should be written by one person or multiple people

• I think a good place to start is “Please write 100 pages by yourself.

  • Structuring sticky notes with mixed thoughts from multiple people is harder than doing a single person-derived one.
  • I would not recommend this to someone doing the KJ method for the first time.
  • If you only know how to do it with more than one person, you cannot utilize it for single-person work.

• But in some cases, there is not enough enthusiasm or experience accumulated to write 100 pages by one person.

  • People who can’t write tend to abort before they write 100 pages.
    • 20190205KJ method experiment by Mr. Tachikawa was “I wrote 70 pages” as opposed to “I will write more than 10 pages today and send the photos to Nishio.
      • Low hurdles to output
  • If you can’t write, it’s better to “try your best to turn up 100 pages” to train yourself in the writing method.
    • Better to take it one step further by making the goal closer, “Let’s write 10 pages today.”
    • It’s better to let them have a track record of making 100 sticky notes by themselves, even if it takes 10 days.
  • In the special environment of a “time-limited workshop,” if you ask each participant to write 100 pages and they fail to do so, it will ruin the management plan, so I guess people don’t really want to do it.
    • I didn’t want to do the write out method in time either, so I told Mr. Tachikawa to go write 100 pages.
    • After confirming that it was written, we set a date and time for the event.

• Doing it with more than one person has the effect of encouraging verbalization through the stimulation of others.

  • Beneficial to make a few in a short time.
    • If 10 people give you 10 each, you get 100.
  • People who have trouble doing the writing out method alone do not have high mental pressure for output in the first place.
    • If there are people with strong output pressure in the room, they will shrink and stop outputting.
    • It is useful to have a style of sharing where each person writes sticky notes instead of verbally brainstorming
    • Related: brainwriting.

• Related:. - Originality first before co-creation - 20190205KJ method experiment by Mr. Tachikawa

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