VOTING

Voting methods:• eMail voting

• Stickers or marking pen on posters, coloured paper or butchers paper

• Poker chips / group session

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• Tally the totals, list highest to lowest

• Report back to stakeholders

 Poker chips image: http://www.danielmello.net/creativeworks/shorties/ 28/06/2013Paper image: http://www.eckersleys.com.au/products/craft/scrapbooking/scrapping-paper 28/6/2013

VOTING VIA EMAIL

Outlook image: http://www.technipages.com/outlook-2010-2007-send-a-vote-email.html 28/9/2013

Why/when to use it?

• To get agreement with multiple stakeholders, or reduce multiple options

• When locations are spread around• When hierarchy doesn’t dictate the top priorities

VOTING VIA EMAIL

Outlook image: http://www.technipages.com/outlook-2010-2007-send-a-vote-email.html 28/9/2013

To set up eMail voting:

• From my Outlook …

• New message >

• Options tab >

• click Use Voting Buttons >

• click Custom …

VOTING VIA EMAIL

Outlook 2010 image: JRose 28/9/2013

eMail voting – Properties dialog

• Enter whatever options you need in the Use voting buttons free-text field

• with colons separating the options (;) no spaces

• Click Close

• Back at the untitled email, the Use Voting Buttons will now have the new options included – and selected.

VOTING - OUTPUTS

• In the eMail invitation, the Vote button includes the list of options for people to select between (in this case, Indian, Thai or chinese)

• Outlook enables easy tallying once votinghas started (see Tracking tab)

Image: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/techrepublic-tutorial-use-outlooks-built-in-voting-feature-to-create-custom-voting-buttons/1052321 28/06/2013

PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAMS

• Showing Addams Family vacation with each person in their own swimlane

• Use of colour

• Include a legend and any scaleon X and Y axis (eg Names, Day of the week)