Tony Adams

MARCH 6, 2021

Using design thinking to change up your project planning. How can we apply design thinking principles to help our users commit to our project delivery and make use of the end result? Throughout most of human history, we have used design thinking in one form or another to improve the form and function of physical objects.

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Tony Adams

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Many clients think that Project Management is about building widgets. This is where design thinking helps us. Human centred design thinking. Bringing a human-centred design focus to Project Management is about three things. Applying human-centred design thinking.

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Zen Project Management

JANUARY 6, 2016

I've been reading the book Change by Design by Tim Brown. It's part of my overall interest in design in general. In design thinking you want to take into account all three of these aspects as you're working on a project. I think there's a very strong tie between desirability and how agile projects work.

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Online PM Courses

MAY 6, 2020

With the continuing rise of Agile Project Management, a term Project Managers are hearing more often is Design Thinking. So, What is Design Thinking? The post What is Design Thinking? Human-centered Problem-solving | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Inloox

JULY 18, 2022

Design Thinking as a very target group oriented and idea generating approach can help here. The concept is being actively developed and disseminated by the Palo Alto-based design and innovation company IDEO under CEO Tim Brown. The design thinking process. User orientation and creative thinking.

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The Digital Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Here’s a curated list of some of the best design thinking frameworks out there – a gallery of best practices for leading workshops, brainstorms, and general strategies for solving creative problems. The post Creative problem-solving with design thinking frameworks appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This is also known as a design-thinking culture. Design thinking allows organisations to thrive in today’s ever-changing landscape – providing project leaders are adaptive enough to be able to work in this more complex world. (To While the following behaviours are more likely to kill design-thinking: Fear of the unknown.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Design thinking is a non-linear process, which allows businesses and their project teams to embrace design concepts, in order to solve complex, ill-defined problems. While the concept of design thinking has grown in popularity, some remain unsure of precisely how it works and what the benefits of a design thinking course are.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this independent review, I’ll share: Whether the course is really worth it (I think so) Why it’s good for experienced project and change management practitioners Who shouldn’t do the course? Think about culture change, saving the rainforest, social planning, exploring the planets. I don’t think this is a beginner’s course.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There is enough research and detail to support the line of thinking while not getting too philosophical. Next it looks at ‘standard’ scientific project management methodology, which is based on empirical and reductionist thinking – and this approach ultimately falls short on complex projects where there are a lot of unknowns.

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PM Times

JUNE 1, 2022

What is Design Thinking? Design thinking is a methodology that was created by Stanford University professor Tim Brown and IDEO’s CEO, an innovation agency where they wanted to improve the service to their customers, from an empathy approach.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you’ve not managed the process of ideation, ideas assessment, business analysis, design, development, and deployment before then, you might find the course a stretch. I think this course is only for people new to the workforce who are early in their career journey and not PMI members. The Citizen Developer Foundation (CD-F) course.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are two things I think worth pointing out about this book: The book leans heavily on PMI ways of working First, although it is very much grounded in reality and practical skills, it also heavily leans on A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). And that brings me to the second point.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Association for Project Management Body of Knowledge 7th Edition In other words, your quality management work is all about making sure that what you deliver is good enough for the job it was designed to do. If you want to use subjective measures , think about how you could survey the team in this scenario. The options are: Once (i.e.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 11, 2023

They’ll also be involved in undertaking surveys, setting out sites and making sure that the technical designs and drawings are accurate. Site engineers also ensure that the staff is following those technical designs and drawings correctly as they execute their work.

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Celoxis

JANUARY 31, 2017

Project management and design thinking have been evolving rapidly in the recent years. Being both a science and an art, design thinking is an important part of project management that cannot be ignored anymore.

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Zen Project Management

MAY 16, 2016

By LibertyGroup25 (Own work) Henry Ford pioneered many of the ideas that are now commonplace in business, including ideas used in Design Thinking. This hits on the design thinking principle of divergence. I was in a design thinking workshop and we did an exercise where first we were asked to draw a door bell.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

That means removing the busywork of project management like data collection, status reporting and tracking – which I think is a good thing. I don’t think human intelligence will ever be removed from project delivery. You can only get so much business acumen, systems thinking and cultural understanding from a model.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And don’t worry if you think it is going to take you a while to get round to using the exam simulator. I have used the exam simulator, and I think it’s very realistic. The course content has been designed by PMP ® certificate holders. I think the design of some of the slides for the webinars is old-fashioned.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Key Topics: Traditional vs Agile Approaches The Human Element in DevOps Discovering the Power of Scrum Organizational Transformation through Agile The Liberating Nature of Agile Practices Agile and DevOps presented a way to not just work differently but to think differently.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A project budget is a financial document that lays out what you think you’ll spend on a project. Direct/Indirect Costs The first way to think about your project costs is to consider what’s a direct cost and what’s an indirect cost. Designing a new product? What is a project budget? Let’s look at each of those in turn.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2023

The actual TED talk principles are refreshingly simple and make me think of those that accompany the Agile Manifesto like, ‘Simplicity – the art of maximizing the work not done – is essential.’ Do you even think storytelling is something that project managers should consider? Believe me, I’m a model. Let us know in the comments.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 4, 2021

A skill for PMs will be design thinking and analytical thinking to select the right tools and instruments, applications for the organisation, specific to the organisation. There is room for this speciality; it’s a tool for creating detailed design. . The technology is moving very fast. It’s a key skill.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Having designated risk roles ensures that significant risks receive attention and allows everyone on the team to focus on completing the project successfully. Full-time designated job role. Lastly, think about the enterprise resources available to help you manage your risks better. High to almost total. Project manager.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That means everything, from all the processes and activities that are needed to design, create, deliver and support IT services. To get a better grip on ITSM, think of all IT as being delivered as a service. This isn’t IT support, which is how most outsiders think of all IT activities.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2024

It was specifically designed to help policymakers harness insights from the behavioural sciences to craft more effective public policy. By understanding how people think and what influences their decisions, the creators aimed to provide tools that could lead to more sustainable and accepted government interventions.

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Zen Project Management

JULY 8, 2016

I'm currently reading the book Design the Life You Love by Ayse Birsel. The book takes a look at Design Thinking and applying it to your own life. It is based on the success that the author has had as a product designer. She uses examples from her own design career to help illustrate the steps of the process.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 20, 2022

Just as we only look at the building and often neglect the foundation that supports it, the architectural design process is the bedrock of construction project management. What Is the Architectural Design Process? The architectural design process is how a construction project is developed and analyzed in set stages. Learn more.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2023

The more complex the product is, the more time everyone wants to think. First think, then build. The general mindset was to find your way through complexity by thinking. Let’s find our way through complexity by thinking…?” To not spend so much time thinking and creating all these plans packed with assumptions.

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Scrum.org

JULY 24, 2023

The good news is that there are plenty of valuable practices and frameworks that help Product Owners and Scrum teams with product discovery, for example: Design Thinking Design Thinking is a five-stage, user-centered problem-solving practice widely used in product development and innovation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

You can tailor what is discussed in a stand up meeting, so if you are working out what to say as the meeting chair, think about what is useful for the team to know. This was a quick exercise but it triggered us into thinking about ourselves and what we can improve in our approach to work. This one made me laugh!

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Design Team Alliance. Here the focus is to coach and seed a Product thinking mindset. . You are responsible for helping teams and organisations discover the benefits of customer-centricity, design thinking and discovery. Design Thinking. Promote Software Craftsmanship . Team Coaching Tools. Impact Mapping.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2024

It was specifically designed to help policymakers harness insights from the behavioural sciences to craft more effective public policy. By understanding how people think and what influences their decisions, the creators aimed to provide tools that could lead to more sustainable and accepted government interventions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 12, 2024

I can’t be the only one who thinks that with better productivity tools for teams, we’d be more… productive. I think this one is an essential! SmartSuite Think of SmartSuite as a blend of the best of Airtable, Notion, and ClickUp/Monday. It’s designed to handle any kind of project or task with ease.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 13, 2023

However, I think in the current setup, scrum is the most popular approach ( rightly or wrongly ) in the market. If an “ agilist” is unfamiliar with it, I think it says a lot. They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches. I think there’s actually a triangle.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 10, 2022

Let’s take the exam content outline for the PMP as that’s a good guide to what PMI thinks power skills means. There aren’t many resources specifically designed purely for this segment of the Talent Triangle, so the one I recommend is The PDU Podcast Leadership Package. What project management tasks count as power skills.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

The base is Leadership, Systems Thinking, and Process Integrity. Systems Thinking Systems thinking recognizes that everything we do is part of a bigger whole. Sadly, few organizations employ systems thinking. It was initially designed to manage the flow of parts and inventory in factories. The roof is Value.

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