Participatory Decision Making

The objective of participatory decision making is to provide the project community with specific practices to frame, analyze, and make the myriad decisions that arise during a project. The lack of adequate decision-making processes in organizations is evident in a couple of quotes from clients I’ve worked with over the years.

“That one decision-gradient diagram [Figure 9-9] was the most important piece of the two-day consulting session,” said a product development VP client recently stated. The gradient kept them from focusing in too early on binary yes-no decisions and led to better discussions.