Bug List Technique

Innovators share the feeling of being driven by a real or perceived failure of existing things or processes, to work as well as they might. Fault finding with the world around them and disappointments with the inefficiencies with which things are done appear to be common traits among inventors. According to Marvin Camaras, an inventor, “Inventors tend to be dissatisfied with what they see around them … maybe they’re dissatisfied with something they’re actually working on or with an everyday thing... They say this is a very poor way of doing it.” The Bug List techniques were developed to capitalize on this tendency of faulting things around us – to lead to corrective action. Procedure for use: 1. The group is asked to identify things that irritate or “bug” them. Each person is asked to identify 5 or 10 bugs. 2. Then the list is consolidated to identify the bugs common to most persons. 3. The group is led through the list and asked to vote. 4. Then the group brainstorms ways to resolve the bugs.