How Design Thinking Can Add Value to Project Management

Abstract

Abstract

Project management in recent/previous projects was noticed to lack the project's primary purpose, which is the project delivery quality/output. Design thinking, which is end-user-oriented and mainly focused on generating the best ideas to create the best product, will be a beneficial addition to the project management process. There are multiple phases in design thinking to be integrated into the project management procedures: empathy, ideation, prototype, and testing. The most crucial phase to be integrated into project management’s planning is the ideation phase, which will ultimately ensure the project to have a proper completion and as per the client’s requirements by generating lots of ideas to achieve the listed requirements and studied problem statements from the empathy phase. Combining both methods and processes will result in the ultimate project planning and execution and ensure the targeted delivery is achieved.

Our research is divided into two sections, and they are:

• Online Research Section: Going through all the recent and previous projects that have been implemented and based on Design Thinking to investigate the requirements and how well they will integrate with our current procedures.
• Survey Section: We will conduct a survey involving project managers of all fields to participate, share their constraints, and extract their acceptance of our integration processes and required changes.

Results and Conclusion

• Enhanced methodology to define the client/customer requirements and achieve them in the project delivery.
• Smooth integration with beneficial addition to project managers in project implementation as the best-case scenario generated through brain-storming sessions.