Making Better Decisions with Choosing By Advantages - SAN FRANCISCO

Learning objectives:

• Understand the importance of decision-making methods.
• Learn the basics of CBA.
• Practice documenting an individual decision.
• Create a transparent rationale for a team’s decisions.
• Understand how to start implementing in your projects.

In this full-day workshop, you will learn how CBA can drive project success. Paz, Annett, and Randi have published the Building Decisions book, which expands on these ideas. They have also co-founded CollabDecisions, a platform to share knowledge on how to make collaborative decisions. Please join us for an interactive conversation to address the decision-making challenges in construction projects. Bring your ideas and questions!

Recommended Reading: 

Building Decisions: How Choosing by Advantages Drives Project Success

Instructors:

Paz Arroyo, DPR Construction, is a National Quality Leader at DPR Construction. Paz and her team support Culture of Quality, sharing best practices, delivering training, and connecting with operations. She has a strong Lean background rooted in practice and research. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on Lean and decision-making. She is also the author of the book Building Decisions.

Randi Christensen, COWI is an engineer and earned her PhD at Aalborg University in Denmark, focusing on how we learn from project to project, and how Lean Construction methods can support this. Her experience ranges from Danish Defense to implementing Lean in a UK megaproject and helping Copenhagen Municipality implement CBA. She is a Sustainability Director at COWI, focusing on decision-making to drive projects in a sustainable direction by incorporating multiple voices and diverse pools of knowledge.

Annett Schöttle, Independent Consultant & CBA/Lean-Expert (Projektberatung) earned her PhD at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, on requirements and incentives to create a collaborative Lean project delivery system for capital projects. She works as an independent Lean consultant, with extensive experience in megaprojects, helping project teams collaborate to develop, align, and optimize production planning from project start to commissioning, and implementing CBA for better decision-making in various settings. Annett is a founding member and trainer for the German LCI.

Available public parking nearby, public transit encouraged

Lunch will be provided

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