Design Decision Tool
Running a business, particularly an IT business, is complicated. Teams often have low consensus when discussing even seemingly simple issues. Meetings go on and on, people feel like their opinions are being drowned out, and the same issues keep popping up again and again.
But it doesn't have to be that way. There are simple techniques which have proven to effectively communicate seemingly complex reasoning in a simple way.
For the past few months I've been working on this alone. I'm currently speaking with other like minded entrepreneurs in my search for potential partners.
Companies with similar goals:
- likehumans
- cloverpop
Team communication is often much less structured and productive than it can be.
People disagree, and don't have a productive process for seriously considering multiple points of view.
This creates tension and ultimately leads to resentment and burnout in the workplace.
Decision Matrix
The fundamental, nodal unit of the DDT is a decision matrix.
Users will be walked through the process of harnessing the simple but powerful tool.
Decision matrices can be stacked into a tree structure to flesh out more complex decisions.
Decision Matrix - Which sandwich to eat for lunch?
taste | nutrition | score | |
---|---|---|---|
ham | 8 | 6 | 14 |
veggie | 6 | 7 | 13 |
Shareholders <==> Engineers
Almost anyone who makes important design or process related decisions can benefit from this tool.
I plan to go after tech companies in particular because my tool is especially useful for modeling decision making processes in atmospheres of high uncertainty.
CloverPop is the only comparable competition that I know of, and it only scratches the surface of what's possible.
Currently working on a proof of concept. Need to validate that people will be willing to learn and use the more technically involved features.
Currently looking for companies to user test and validate the tools. Looking more for investment of time from potential customers than for monetary investment at this point.
river.kanies@gmail.com