Course

Introduction to Decision Framing for Project Management

Disciplines: Business & Management
Category: Intermediate - Prerequisite Training or Skill • Introductory
Format: Classroom • Live Online
Available: Public • Private

Who Should Attend

Project managers, team leads, development planners, economists, and professionals working major capital projects or complex decisions in their areas of responsibility.

Description

This highly interactive 1-day course introduces the concept of decision quality and teaches decision framing skills to ensure that teams operate efficiently to enable informed decisions on their projects and opportunities. The goal is for attendees to become comfortable framing different types of decision problems, from the simple to the complex. Participants learn a structured workflow, thought process and toolset to take a room full of issues, with a group of people, or individually, and make perfect sense of it: define and focus the problem, identify key decisions and critical uncertainties, prioritize decisions, build viable alternative plans, qualitatively assess options, and structure the quantitative evaluation, should that be necessary to achieve clarity of action.

Learning Outcomes

Understand how to facilitate the development of a decision frame with key team members and decision makers.
Develop a clear Problem Definition.
Solicit and categorize relevant issues to identify key decisions and project risks and uncertainties.
Define alternative strategies to consider and structure their evaluation.
Qualitatively evaluate the options and facilitate a preliminary trade-offs discussion.
Understand the path to develop a high-level decision roadmap.

Course Content

Introduction to Decision Quality
Clear Problem Definitions
Soliciting and categorizing relevant issues to understand the decision landscape
Prioritizing decisions in a Decision Hierarchy
Strategy Tables to build a menu of options and develop viable alternative plans
Qualitatively assessing alternatives and mining for insight
Presenting and communicating frames to leadership to support informed decision-making