[gregdetre]

The evidence suggests that brainstorming doesn't work so well - the loudest and earliest views tend to dominate.

Instead, the recommendation seems to be to allow people to generate ideas in silence first. This is my approach, which has worked very effectively in groups of up to a dozen remotely for a variety of questions:

https://www.makingdatamistakes.com/how-to-run-an-idea-stampe...

[mycologos]

I like the approach described in that link, but oh man, if somebody started a meeting with "let's not brainstorm -- let's Idea Stampede", it'd be hard not to laugh.