Control change to design thinking in projects so every variation has a price and a decision.
Design Thinking in Project Planning and Innovation
A senior-level treatment of design thinking in projects, focused on what changes outcomes.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Most recovery effort on design thinking in projects is spent on problems that were visible early. Scope on thinking in projects expands through small agreements made in isolation. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda, not around theory headings. The most reliable predictor of sound design thinking in projects is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. A common pattern is strong design of the project and portfolio delivery discipline paired with weak follow-through. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with thinking in projects. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of design thinking in projects to standardise and which to leave flexible. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of thinking in projects and supervised application. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on the project and portfolio delivery capability ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Sequence improvements to thinking in projects so that each step makes the next one easier.
Estimate cost and effort for design thinking in projects using more than one method.
Plan handover and benefit realisation for thinking in projects.
Select indicators that show whether design thinking in projects is improving, and reject those that only look useful.
Apply a repeatable review cycle to thinking in projects and act on what it produces.
Close design thinking in projects properly and capture lessons while they are still accurate.
Who Should Attend
Contract and procurement staff supporting design thinking in projects.
Business change managers handling adoption of thinking in projects.
Cost engineers and project controls staff on design thinking in projects.
Team leaders and supervisors who put thinking in projects into practice day to day.
Planners and schedulers building the timeline for design thinking in projects.
Consultants and advisers supporting clients on thinking in projects.
Course Modules
Design thinking in projects: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on design thinking in projects starts
- Collect evidence on the present handling of design thinking in projects before proposing changes.
- Identify the critical path through thinking in projects and the float elsewhere.
- Manage supplier performance on design thinking in projects against contract, not goodwill.
- Confirm that reporting on thinking in projects reaches the people who can act.
Session 2The decisions in thinking in projects that cannot be delegated
- Plan handover of design thinking in projects to the team that will operate it.
- Set escalation thresholds for thinking in projects that work out of hours.
- Map stakeholders of design thinking in projects by influence and current level of support.
- Agree the escalation threshold for thinking in projects in advance.
Thinking in projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The risks to thinking in projects nobody wants to raise
- Rank the weaknesses in design thinking in projects by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Hold a lessons session on thinking in projects while memory is accurate.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about design thinking in projects.
- Reduce the variation in how thinking in projects is carried out between teams.
Session 2Measuring progress on thinking in projects honestly
- Archive the decision record for design thinking in projects so successors understand it.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of thinking in projects.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to design thinking in projects.
- Register the risks to thinking in projects with owner, probability and impact.
Thinking in projects: stakeholders, communication and support
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Decision gates on thinking in projects that can actually stop it
- Agree the indicators that will show whether design thinking in projects is improving.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on thinking in projects.
- Review at each gate whether design thinking in projects should continue at all.
- Define the decision gates for thinking in projects and what evidence each requires.
Session 2Handing over design thinking in projects and proving the benefit
- Build the internal briefing that explains design thinking in projects to those affected.
- Prepare the summary of thinking in projects that senior management will read.
- Define how the benefit from design thinking in projects will be measured after closure.
- Set out the decisions in thinking in projects that require sign-off and by whom.
Thinking in projects: handover, benefits and lessons
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in thinking in projects and what to ignore
- Agree the smallest change to design thinking in projects that would be visibly useful.
- Define the trigger that would require thinking in projects to be redesigned.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around design thinking in projects are understood.
- Estimate thinking in projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
Session 2Recovering thinking in projects when it is behind
- Prepare the recovery plan for design thinking in projects before it is needed.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for thinking in projects.
- Build reporting on design thinking in projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Compare resource demand from thinking in projects against other commitments.
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USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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