Seminars

Managing Complex Product Design Projects

Offered by: Professor Steven Eppinger, MIT Sloan School of Management

Through lectures, exercises, interactive discussions, and teamwork, participants in the program learn how to use DSM to map complex design procedures into simple arrays. Most important, they learn how to solve four key problems that confound complex product development project management: iteration, overlapping tasks, architecture, decomposition and integration.

In Managing Complex Product Development Projects, participants learn to:

  • better document existing procedures 
  • reduce complexity 
  • share data with confidence 
  • facilitate project flow 
  • expose constraints and conflicts 
  • design iteration strategically

Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications Tutorials and Workshops

Offered by: Professor Tyson Browing, Texas Christian University

Tyson Browning offers several courses, both as executive education and tutorials that can be run at individual companies. The courses are mostly based on the DSM methodology and represent the different facets of its application. All courses can also be tailored to the needs of the participants. Basically, the following courses are available:

Tutorials/Workshops:

  • Introduction to the Design Structure Matrix:  Applications to Systems Architecting, Organization Design, Process Analysis, and Project Management 
  • Information-Driven Project Management:  Why Schedule Tasks When You Should Schedule Results?    
  • Using the Risk Value Method to Forecast and Track Progress and Added Value in Projects and Programs    

 
Executive Education Courses:

  • Process Improvement:  Lean, Six Sigma, and Toyota Production System 
  • Introduction to Project and Program Management 
  • Project Risk Management 
  • Project Scheduling 
  • Developing Operational Excellence