Ask HN: What's the Alternative to the Dot-Voting?

[trzeci]

Hello!

Do you know some techniques that can be used instead of dot-voting? (I'm not referring to more 'official' methods like MoSCoW or Value/Effort matrix - frequently at the stage we don't have all data to switch to them).

The simplest use case: We have a team retro, where each team member writes a note of some problem has occurred last sprint - then everyone participating to the retro has N votes (3 usually) that are spend of voting of the most important topic to discuss.

I believe the dot-voting has a few biases: - members can vote on already most voted item - members vote on their topic - the most common (not necessary most important topic) problem is top-voted

So far I didn't find any simple but more correct alternative to the dot-voting. Do you share the same problem? Do you have some idea what can be used instead or how the dot-voting can be improved?

[trzeci]

Update: I found a good blog post that states the problem I feel: https://stephenanderson.medium.com/whats-wrong-with-dot-voti... with a possible solution it to then.