Design Project Management
Design Thinking & Project Management
Bruce Gay, PMP
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Bruce Gay, PMPJune 2016
My Background• Program Manager living in Pittsburgh, PA
• Managed programs across healthcare IT, telecom and military/defense industries
• 10+ years managing teams that incorporated UX Design methodologies
[email protected]/in/brucegayTwitter: @brucegay
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A Call to Action
Design Project Management
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Digital Disruption
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Digital Disruption
“…all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and
can be widely delivered at global scale.”
Marc AndreessenWhy software is eating the world. WSJ, 2011
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Digital Disruption
S&P 500: Average company lifespan is in decline
Source: Foster & Kaplan
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The Future for PMs
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The future of
Project Management
is deeply linked with
Design Thinking.
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Design Drives Business Value
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Over the past 10 years, design-driven companies outperformed the S&P 500 Index by 219%.
Source: The Design Management Institute (DMI)
Design Helps to Mitigate Risk / Failure
Source: Accenture and CEA 2011
of returned consumer electronic products have no defects…95%
68%worked properly but didn’t meet customers expectations.(They either thought it was broken or it did not work properly.)
In 2011, this represented a $17 billion problem in the U.S. alone.
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Design Reduces Overall Development Costs
1x
10x
100x
RELATIVE COST TO REPAIR
Tom GilbSOFTWARE ENGINEERAUTHOR OF “PRINCIPLES OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT” (1988)
Design (concept)
Development
Released
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Design Promotes Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Design
Engineering Business
Human Sciences
Design facilitates collaboration among these key disciplines
Effective teamwork requires a common language and set of methods and principles that everyone can participate in.
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The Cost of Design is Not All That High
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Source: Nielsen, Jakob, and Landauer, Thomas K.: "A mathematical model of the finding of usability problems,“ Proceedings of ACM INTERCHI'93 Conference (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24-29 April 1993), pp. 206-213.
What is Design?What is Design Thinking?
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Examples of Design
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Human Centered Design & Design Thinking is not just something layered on at the end. It’s not lipstick on a pig.
Reference – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_on_a_pig
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“ Design is not a one-shot vaccine;it’s an ‘innovation fitness program’ that puts an organization on top of its game.It is not an ‘event’, it is a way of thinking, communicating and doing every day. ”Heather Fraser THE ROTMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS,UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Design as an “Innovation Fitness Program”
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“Good Design is Good Business”
it’s about building the right thing.
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Design is a cross-cutting product development activity that should be top to bottom.
Project Managers should not run from Design, we should be driving it.
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Key Elements of Design Thinking
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Design Thinking represents the democratization and application of problem-solving methodologies that are integral to Design.
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Key Elements of Design Thinking
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People-centered.
Empathy is at the core.
Key Elements of Design Thinking
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Extensive interdisciplinary collaboration.
Key Elements of Design Thinking
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All about doing & making. Being hands-on.Making to learn.
Key Elements of Design Thinking
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Iterative.
Design Thinking is not magic. There is rigor to it. You can learn it. You can practice it, you can get better at it.
Design is a set of tools to solve problems.
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“Design Thinking stresses the need to rapidly prototype the solution so that the designers can get feedback
as quickly as possible.”
Prof. Sarah SouleSTANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
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Generic Design Model
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DiscoverySynthesisCreationValidation
Iterative
No single process or toolkit serves every case. Design has as variety of processes and tools that people customize to serve their needs.
The five step process from the Stanford Design School is a model that is broadly used and has proven value.
Source: Stanford University Institute of Design
Empathize
Define
Ideate
Prototype
Test
Stanford Design School Method
There are Many Models of Design
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As a Project Manager, you need to understand whatever design process you are using and account for it.
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Design Resources
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• IDEO• Frog Design• Stanford d.school• Luma Institute• IBM Design Thinking
Where to Go for More Information
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Lessons for Integrating Design into Projects
Top 6 Lessons:1. Shield your teams from heavy PM tools and processes2. Design should be involved in the full development lifecycle3. The sequencing of design work is important4. Strive for extensive collaboration and share designs early and
often5. Co-design works6. Evangelize Design by “doing it”
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Key Takeaways
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1.The future of Project Management is deeply linked with Design Thinking.
2.Good Design is about building the right thing, not just making things look pretty.
3.Good Design is about problem solving.
4.Design Thinking is everyone’s job.
5.Design is not magic. There is rigor to it. You can practice it and get better at it.
6.Project Managers should not run from Design, we should lead by understanding it and by using Design Thinking.
When faced with a tough business challenge tackle it as a design problem!
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