The key point here is that we put a great deal of effort into defining the business needs.
If we could live with not-knowing, if we can weather uncertainty then we can find better outcomes..The horrific experiences of two people in the 20. th.
Century formed the foundation of an abiding philosophy.Victor Frankl, who survived a concentration camp in WW2 and went on to write “Man’s search for meaning” and General Stockdale, who was captured in Vietnam and survived brutal imprisonment, both concluded that living with the uncertainty in those times was key to survival.The artificiality of grasping for certainty was a flawed survival strategy.
Facing and accepting where you are today, with hope and certainty that you will find a solution, a way out at some point equipped people advantageously..Both gripping stories and afar from the project world, and yet they can tell us something about the human condition and how the intuitive response to find certainty, something to hold onto, is very unhelpful at times..
So what does this mean in the world of projects?
It means ensuring that the purpose, aspiration and hope for the project is kept alive.Platforms enable designers to consider, share and integrate all pertinent data in the earliest design concepts, locking this value in to the DNA of the design, delivery and operation..
Reduced handoffs for reduced risk.Embedding pertinent data in a digital library avoids continual calculations from first principles and sequential issuing.
Instead, compliance is pre-baked into the design through rule sets and parameters that are agreed up front by multiple engineers.From that point on, design compliance can then be either shown systematically against the agreed rule set or even autogenerated against it..