Give everyone a fixed number of votes and let the group decide what matters most. Fast, visual, and bias-resistant prioritization for any team.
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Dot voting (also called dotmocracy or multi-voting) is a facilitation technique where each participant receives a limited number of votes to distribute across a list of options. You can put all your votes on one item or spread them across several - the choice reflects your priorities.
The power is in the constraints. Because votes are limited, people are forced to make real trade-offs instead of marking everything as important. The result is a ranked list that reflects the group's true priorities, not just the loudest voice in the room.
Every person gets the same number of votes. Seniority and title do not determine influence - the best ideas win based on collective preference.
No lengthy debates before a decision. Add items, open voting, reveal results. The whole process takes minutes, not hours.
Limited votes mean people cannot mark everything as top priority. You get honest signal about what actually matters most to the group.
Results are immediately visible and ranked by total votes. Everyone can see what the group chose and why, with no ambiguity.
Real scenarios software teams run into every sprint.
After generating a long list of improvement ideas, use dot voting to identify the two or three actions the team will actually commit to this sprint. Keeps retros outcome-focused.
When the backlog has too many candidates for the next sprint and the team needs to agree on what goes in. Everyone votes on which items deliver the most value right now.
After a product brainstorm session, use dot voting to quickly surface the ideas worth exploring further before spending time on detailed analysis or prototyping.
For lighter decisions where you need group consensus fast - naming things, picking a retro format, or choosing which working agreement to discuss first.
When leadership or product teams need to choose between competing quarterly themes or strategic bets, dot voting surfaces the group preference without a long debate.
Engineers often disagree on which tech debt to tackle first. Dot voting gives every engineer equal say and produces a ranked list the whole team can commit to.
The host creates a room and sets how many votes each person gets (usually 3 to 5).
Share the room code with your team. No accounts, no downloads - they join instantly.
Everyone adds items to the list: topics, features, ideas, retro actions, anything to prioritize.
The host opens the voting phase. The item list is now locked.
Each person distributes their votes across items. You can stack multiple votes on one item if it is your top priority.
Votes are hidden until the host reveals results - no anchoring bias.
The host reveals all votes. Items are automatically ranked by total votes.
Discuss the top items and decide on next steps together.
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