Plan Your Affinity Mapping Sessions

A step-by-step planner for agile teams to organize ideas and data into meaningful groups, ensuring your workshops lead to actionable outcomes.

The Agile Affinity Mapping Planner is a web-based tool designed to help agile teams, scrum masters, and facilitators plan and structure affinity mapping sessions. It organizes numerous ideas, feedback, or data into logical themes through a collaborative and repeatable process, leading to actionable outcomes.

Purpose and Benefits

This planner facilitates productive affinity mapping workshops by providing a step-by-step wizard that guides preparation, execution, analysis, and implementation, enabling teams to extract meaningful insights and drive improvements.

Structured Planning: A clear, repeatable process reduces complexity in organizing affinity mapping sessions.
Increased Productivity: Well-planned workshops save time and produce better outcomes.
Action-Oriented: Emphasizes creating and monitoring actionable tasks from mapping sessions.
Collaboration and Alignment: Ensures participants share goals and understand the process.
Flexible and Adaptable: Suitable for various contexts and team needs.

How It Works: 5-Step Guided Process

The tool walks users through planning an affinity mapping session in five clearly defined steps, providing tabs for detailed inputs across activities, concepts, case studies, tasks, documents, and comments.

Step 1: Prepare for Affinity Mapping

Define goals, collect data, identify participants, and prepare necessary tools.

Step 2: Conduct the Mapping Session

Plan how ideas will be generated, grouped, and named during the workshop.

Step 3: Analyze and Prioritize Groups

Plan analysis methods and prioritization techniques to translate themes into actionable tasks.

Step 4: Implement and Monitor Actions

Define tracking methods, metrics for measuring impact, and continuous feedback loops.

Step 5: Final Report

Review and export the consolidated affinity mapping plan for sharing and guiding the workshop.

Use Cases

Agile Facilitators & Scrum Masters: Plan and run productive affinity mapping sessions efficiently.
Product Managers & Owners: Organize large amounts of user feedback into clear themes for prioritization.
UX Researchers: Synthesize qualitative data and user insights collaboratively.
Development Teams: Participate in collaborative problem-solving and decision-making activities.