Council

What it does

Each step

1. Builder: Answer from the builder’s side: the best concrete answer or plan, and how to carry it out.
2. Skeptic: Answer from the skeptic’s side: what is wrong, risky or unproven in the obvious answer, and what would have to be true for it to work.
3. Simplifier: Answer from the simplifier’s side: the simplest thing that works, and what to cut.
4. User advocate: Answer for the person who will use the result: what they need, what would confuse them, what it costs them.
5. Writer: You get several answers to one question, each from a different role. Write one combined answer with exactly these headings: ## Agreed, ## Disagree, ## Nobody checked, ## Recommendation. Under the first three, short bullets naming who said what where it matters; under Recommendation, a few lines on what to do. You did not argue: be fair to each.
6. Decision: A note: every answer that reaches it is added at the end, under who sent it and when.

How the work moves

• Start hands what you type to Builder, Skeptic, Simplifier and User advocate at once.
• Writer waits until Builder, Skeptic, Simplifier and User advocate have all answered, then gets their answers together.
• Writer's answer is added to Decision, a note.

What you need

Use it

1. In Morphy: Settings → Community → Playground → Flow templates, pick Council and click Use this flow. It's built on your canvas.
2. Or from the file: download council.flow.json and, on the same page, click Import a file…. It's yours to change, too.
3. Start it: click Start on the flow and say what it should do.