Multi-Voting/Dot Voting

Multi-voting creates a forum in which the team’s wisdom about its priorities emerges through the individual priorities of each team member. It is sometimes referred to as “dot-voting” when each vote is represented by a dot sticker. Every member is allowed a certain number of votes/dots to apply across the total number of items. The leader sums the votes for each item, which then creates the rankings of the items from highest to lowest based on the greatest to least number of votes per item.

Multi-voting differs from the MoSCoW approach in that: