KJ method study group @ Loftwork Slack during personal work

Thread 1

https://gyazo.com/9b7a3c6be13addeedd9d79b1f8eff4c7

Think about whether you can draw a line between each label in this large group and the outside labels, so that it becomes a mesh!

Supplemental:.

There is another group above with a large number of elements, but this one is connected to the outside world a lot, so it's not much of a problem.

The group below has become isolated.

It's like having a group of people from the same high school all talking at a college freshers' party.

If you don't talk to more people outside the group, you're just extending past relationships and not creating new ones.

Make a copy of the current one and keep it nearby, and only use the sticky note in the center!

I think we've become so tied to the structure of the labels we already have that we can't change them to a new place.

So, I will leave it by once.

and make "words that come from the central sticky note and associate them with it".

The placement of these will be around the center sticky note.

(Afterwards)

https://gyazo.com/eefbe67e32fa45e246e7b98122d62b64

(Afterwards)

https://gyazo.com/e2e3165195d26bb7531c5b22f83d4fa8

https://gyazo.com/79131bce5a6aec251d5c68fdb72045ef

Red is "good."

Blue says, "There's a valley here."

Green is "unclear where it leads."

(Final state)

https://gyazo.com/ca6d8989d4e857c540145aef7c36c90c

I noticed it when I was painting the final state.

The original had exactly the same thin black lines connecting the labels and the enclosure.

The center sticky, "What do you want to do with X?" was mentioned that the "X" was changed to "X".

What do you want to do?" he said, "I feel that if I put 'what do you want to do' in the answer, I will only get a list of answers that already exist.

I had to go through...

Basically, "change it to make it easier to do" is a good thing.

I was a little curious as to why all the answers were lined up that were already there.

Thread 2

relevance

Thread 3

Making stickies in advance is just "to extend the work time that may be missing".

So I think it is better to leave it by your side once than to let it stop you.

Supplemental:.

If we do a second session, maybe instead of "please go make 25 labels," the advance preparation should be "put the theme in the middle, add the associations as labels, draw a line, repeat 25 times, and leave it with a branch growing.

Thread 4

Supplemental:.

By not being used to "drawing the line," we tend to unconsciously avoid drawing the line!

So the intent was, "If you're not sure, let's make it a line.

The "if it's not an exact match" was superfluous, but that's not the rule.

It's rather worthless to put labels side by side with exact matches.

https://gyazo.com/77dcddc698ec321c5dd5ce1fbbbfbf18

This was the age of no computers, so I made a tearful effort to use clips to display the relationships while allowing the labels to be moved later!

I think the following interpretation would be easy to realize this with the current tools

Generally, "relationship" is "one line."

The "conflict relationship" is "two-headed arrow ↔."

Similar relationships, sets, and sequences are arranged without lines.

Thread 5

(I'm saying this at random without looking at the map)

Thread 6

Is it important to start with a rough label without a goal in mind?

Because the "conclusion" you made before it was made was just what you originally had.

So it's not "new".

The bicycle is not moving forward.

Thread 7.

It's a real downer when you say, "I don't write what I think to avoid crossings."

So, we try to avoid crossing as much as possible, but if we can't help it, we will cross.

Thread 8.

I have a feeling it won't lead to "new insights."

Jiro Kawakita did it with just two things: a simple line and an opposing arrow.

As a general rule, "If you're stuck worrying about trying to do something complicated, you might as well not try to do something complicated and do something simpler.

It's easy to get stuck trying to do something complicated, like worrying about changing line types or trying to color-code sticky notes!

Thread 9.

Thread 10

When you look at a group of several sticky notes, a word that sums them up quickly comes to mind

I'm going to resist the temptation to label them as a group, and treat them as a single sticky just like any other sticky.

nishio.icon

I see! Let me put it another way.

For a group of stickies, it comes to mind, "This group's nameplate is X, right?"

But instead of making it a table-top at one level higher than the elements of the group, dare to make it a sticky at the same level as the elements of the group.

There's something nice about doing that.

https://gyazo.com/4a59c1351074fa7b8ee1f34c6d1d8c37

1: Every element of the group is a little different from each other, even the same family has different personalities.

2: To put nameplate X on that group is to ignore individuality and make it "X family".

3: On the other hand, if X is the new label

4: Bring coordinate axes into the group, such as "labels that are close to X" and "labels that are not so close to X

5: Provides a means to get a more complete picture of the group

I got the impression that

Thread 11.

(looking at the map) I see, that there are many labels for questions.

If you compare it to fishing, it is the stage where you can put the bait on the hook and throw it in, but the fish is not biting yet.

We're clearly making more progress than we were at the stage where the hook wasn't ready yet.

You can't predict when a fish will be hooked.

Questions that can be answered quickly are not important questions.

I just posed the question with what I originally knew the answer to.

Dangling a lot of fishhooks with questions that don't get answered right away.

And then you leave it and do something else, and then you think, "Oh, that's the answer to the question I just asked.

This is a fish on a hook.

It's worth it to catch this fish.

Thread 12.

https://gyazo.com/9fbf5e828a907f2922f501b291dce850

No problem!

You mean the red not surrounded by yellow, which is fine.

That said, the group doesn't have a nameplate on it.

Label red and yellow groups with an explanation of "what that group is"!

Thread 13.

As a result, I surround myself with the feeling that "new insights" are not being generated.

Is it something you had before you started making maps?

Is it newly born?

is the problem.

If it's something you've had for a while, the bike isn't moving forward.

Along the way, key stickies like "Oh! This is it?" kind of key sticky note is born.

→It feels good and makes you want to connect the others to it.

is

New insights gave me a new perspective.

→ I'd like to look back at the past with that new perspective.

I thought you meant...

It's natural to want to look back the way you came.

The view you see when you look back from the hill is different from what you saw before you came to the hill. But what's important is the new view.

Thread 14 (related to thread 13)

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If it's something you've had for a while, the bike isn't moving forward.

→ I didn't have it before I started making maps either, but I still feel somewhat bewildered.

You have a fixed idea of how to tie stickies together.

I wonder if it is not well enclosed...

For now, I think it would be good to put the yellow group on the front page as planned and work on enclosing more yellow groups, of which there are still many!

(I felt that there were many parts of the tree that were not reticulated and remained just a tree, in case I have to do it again in the future.)

https://gyazo.com/a9887f20c8894ea20c4a9944689c2b49

If you highlight only the reticulated area, it looks like this

There are a few places where the two are separated by a great distance, but are they really close together? There are a few places where

https://gyazo.com/bbb7b6791477bbe1c73160b6506f76ca

Thread 15.

I realized that my initial thematic question was unimportant."

Then the next step is to ask, for example, "So what is it that we should really be asking?" And so on.

Thread 16.

https://gyazo.com/f48158a531ac533da02473ae741eda5b

(In the original, the enclosing lines were thick blue and conspicuous, and the related lines were thin black and unremarkable.

Even where the lines are connected, they are almost a "tree" and not a mesh.

I feel much less "done".

It's hard to recover in the last 25 minutes, so we should try to "tie the line" instead of trying to finish in time.

I imagine only doing the first half.

Thread 17.

Impression 1

Supplement: I thought this is what you meant.

https://gyazo.com/4ccc51de74762aee67f5d53015a6305a

Connections are discovered between "different branches" with different thought paths.

It's fun to pay attention to this "awareness" and to notice even more!

If you rearrange these red "newly discovered connections" to shrink them, you will see a different structure than you had previously assumed

Impression 2

Supplemental:.

The first label that repeats an association has a relationship with the "immediately preceding label," but is far removed from the root.

You can move much more freely away from the "structure" you have and assume beforehand.

Like a morning glory vine, it can move around and attach itself to another

Impression 3

Supplement: I thought this is what you meant.

https://gyazo.com/de13e6f881519eba9b4a5c1063b26791

1: At first, we implicitly assume that these are one group.

2: But if you draw a line and visualize the relationship...

3: "What? I think we'll get along surprisingly well here." It's going to happen.

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