Disruptive brainstorming template

by Atlassian

Develop your creativity and generate fresh ideas with your team

KEY FEATURES

Ideation

Problem Solving

Team Collaboration

CATEGORIES

Project Management

Design

Page template

Disruptive brainstorming is a tool to break old assumptions and cultivate creativity when your team is blocked. The method uses disrupt cards to spotlight constraints that the team will have to consider when coming up with new ideas. Try this technique and disruptive brainstorming template to quickly generate fresh ideas with your team. Learn more about how to run the session by reviewing the Disruptive Brainstorming Playbook.

Why Confluence?
How to

Use the strategic plan template in Confluence

Confluence transforms strategic planning from a once-a-year exercise into an ongoing collaborative process. Teams can work together in real-time to develop, refine, and execute their strategic plans without the back-and-forth of email chains or version control issues.

Our template library includes pre-built strategic planning templates that incorporate best practices from successful organizations. These templates provide the structure you need while staying flexible enough to adapt to your specific requirements, allowing you to customize sections and create reusable frameworks for future planning cycles.

Confluence easily integrates with other work management tools, making it invaluable for strategic planning. With Confluence, your strategic plan becomes a living document that connects directly to project execution, progress tracking, and decision-making processes. Team members can reference the strategic plan during brainstorming sessions, link specific initiatives to daily tasks, and maintain alignment between high-level strategy and tactical execution.

How to use the disruptive brainstorming template

Step 1. Prepare for brainstorming

Before you dive into brainstorming, set the stage by identifying the goals of your brainstorming session. What is the problem you’re trying to solve? Talk to your project lead and ask advice from stakeholders who understand where your team is stuck and how a brainstorming session can help. Once you decide on a theme, schedule your session and make sure every participant understands how it’ll run in advance.

Step 2. Create new ideas

Ask the team to come up with any and every solution to the problem you’re looking to solve. Anything goes! The goal is to break past old assumptions and get your creative juices flowing. Put each idea on a sticky note and take advantage of whiteboards to think and collaborate.

Step 3. Cut ideas using disrupt cards

Once you’ve come up with a pile of ideas, use disrupt cards to cut down the total and structure your thinking for the rest of the session. Disrupt cards shake up your brainstorming session by adding new variables to your theme. Introduce a new disrupt card every 10 minutes and try to remove ideas during each round. By the end, you’ll have a focused set of winners.

Step 4: Chart your ideas

After you finish your brainstorming session, organize your ideas into themes your team can work on in the coming months. Follow up with your team and agree on an owner for each theme. Document your ideas in the template and add each theme as a Jira issue on your team’s backlog so you can track results and measure success.