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Waiting for consensus could slow everything down in collaborative workshops, and the broader the scope of the conversation, the lower the probability of deciding anything.
Agreeing on anything that may resemble the final result is nothing short of impossible; too many details and possible objections will make your modelling team waste energy running in circles.
Design sessions can exacerbate this tension because the team might not only be competing for the best solution, but also on the way to getting to the solution, in a modelling style contest that will drain energy and pump up egos.
Instead of wasting time trying to agree on something, establish a rule of having a single person in charge, albeit for a very short time. During this time, the leader can define the Temporary working agreement , and make modelling progress with their style.
The leader may say something like, "Please, be quiet for the next 3 minutes." or "Can you please write your objections silently as HotSpots?" or even "Can you hold your comments while I am moving things?"
There is no perfect recipe here: some people need just two minutes of peace to add a resolving move, others need to feel the audience a little more. Sometimes, the short time is used only to declutter the modelling surface.
Whatever the action, the model can become slightly better than before their round. And progress became faster.
Small improvements in Software Design
In Software Design EventStorming, progress is usually about seeing something others don't. There is no need to wait for everybody before making a move. We usually settle for short timeboxes, maybe 4-5 minutes, but the time eventually becomes shorter, to the point that we don't need a timer anymore.
While another person is making their move, we see the next one, and the cycle of collaborative improvement speeds up.
Big Picture labelling
When framing portions of the Big Picture artefact, the facilitator's lead can easily turn again into a Human Bottleneck , but you may quickly establish a rule stating that everyone can label a portion of the system, as long as they announce it. Then you'll quickly see the board get sorted out.
This step, part of Frame Sorting , is one of the coolest in online workshops.