Report- Design Thinking Process

Bring it Together Assignment

Type: In-Semester
Task Length: The submission should reflect the weighting for this final assignment. 1000 word appendix to demonstrate contribution.
Weighting: 30%
Links to Learning Outcomes: 1, 2 and 3

Due date: 28 May 2021 11:55pm

This assignment is a group submission. You will be required to work in groups of four for this assessment task. If you are having trouble forming a group, use the discussion board on MyLO.

1. You will write a report that presents all the following information.
2. Different members of your team will have different strengths and weaknesses. Before you start the task, you must negotiate the roles that you will play in your team and commit to what you will contribute to the assignment. Each team member’s commitments must be recorded in the appendix at the end of your report. Do this first.
3. In this assessment task your group will review the unit case study (Stock Not Obsess Boutique) and identify the unit case study’s original problem.
4. State the case study’s original problem.
5. Consider this problem using a design thinking process. Document the outputs of each phase in the design thinking process.
6. The end point of your design thinking process should be a project description that will solve the problem that you have stated.
7. Create a Project Initiation Document (PID) that is designed specifically to address the project created by your design thinking process. Your PID will be influenced by your previous PID because it is the same organisation, however the project will be different and that will change the requirements and justifications. You can re-use material from previous assignments and workshops.
8. Remember, that it is your justification for the decisions that you have made that is the most important, so justify everything that you do.
9. After you have completed your report, each team member needs to comment on how they achieved or did not achieve their commitments from Step 2. These comments will form part of the same appendix from Step 2.

It is recommended that you use this as your design thinking process:
Empathise Define Ideate Prototype Test

The PID should include the following sections:
· Background (from week 6)
· Project Definition (from week 6)
· Project Approaches (from week 9)
· Project Tolerances (from week 9)
· Project Controls (from week 9)
· Initial Case (from week 6)
· Initial Project Plan (from week 10)
· Project Organisational Structure (from week 5)
· Communications Plan (from week 7)
· Project Quality Plan (from week 11)
· Customer Quality Expectations (from week 11)

Peer Evaluation Survey
Please complete this form about your group: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=VV3rFZEZvEaNp6slI03uCEXKos4i8OpCqAaYoMaE_yJUMEpOQVZQVkJRS1pLODE1NFk5TUJHNjU1UC4u

Group Problems
If you are having problems with your group, please let your unit coordinator know as soon as possible, so that there is time to fix the problem. If you are not doing your fair share of the work, you can expect your results to reflect this.

Assessment Criteria and Learning Outcomes
The following assessment criteria will be used to assess the linked ILO’s for this assessment task:

Assessment Criteria

Linked to ILOs

Compare and contrast project management methodologies in order to determine relevance to specific projects.

ILO1

Apply a user centric focus to project components to align with best practices in project management.

ILO1

Document the Design Thinking process so that each stage is clearly explained and justified.

ILO2

Justify the selection of project management tools and techniques to satisfy organisational requirements.

ILO3

Identify contribution to project outcomes.

ILO3

Reflect on project outcomes.

ILO3

Criteria

HD

DN

CR

PP

NN

Compare and contrast project management methodologies in order to determine relevance to specific projects.
ILO1

The PID has been clearly justified and aligned with project and/or
organisational characteristics

The PID has been justified and aligned with project and/or organisational characteristics

The PID has been aligned with project and/or organisational characteristics

The PID has identified project, team and/or organisational characteristics

Did not use project management methodologies in order to determine relevance to specific projects.

Apply a user centric focus to project components to align with best practices in project management.
ILO1

The PID includes a clear and detailed control, reporting and direction regime that can be implemented, appropriate to scale, risk and importance of the project so that even a person external to the project team member can understand how the project will be managed

The PID includes detailed control, reporting and direction regimes that can be implemented, appropriate to scale, risk and importance of the project so that project team members can understand how the project will be managed

The PID includes appropriate control, reporting and direction processes that can be implemented, appropriate to scale, risk and importance
of the project so that project team members can understand how the project will be managed

The PID includes basic control, reporting and direction processes that can be implemented. These are appropriate to the project so that project team members have instructions
on how the project will be
managed

Did not apply a user centric focus to project components to align with best practices. Basic control, reporting and directions have not been included

Document the Design Thinking process so that each stage is clearly explained and justified.
ILO2

Design Thinking process has been used with descriptions and justification for each step of the process, as well as evidence showing examples of the outcome of each step of the process.

A five or six-phase Design Thinking process has been used with clear descriptions and justification for each step of the process, as well as evidence of the outcome of each step of the process.

A five or six-phase Design Thinking process has been used with descriptions and justification for each step of the process OR well-justified evidence of the outcome of each step of the process.

A five or six-phase Design Thinking process has not been used, but a process has been followed and evidence reported for each step.

No process has really been followed, OR there is little evidence that has been provided.

Justify the selection of project management tools and techniques to satisfy organisational requirements.
ILO3

The PID is appropriate and aligned with the size and nature of the project. The required sections for the PID has been included with industry best practice justifications

The PID is appropriate for the size of the project. The required sections for the PID has been included with justifications.

The PID is appropriate for the size of the project and the required sections have been included.

The PID could be used for the project and the required sections have been included.

Did not include a selection of project management tools
and techniques to satisfy organisational requirements.

Identify contribution to project outcomes.
ILO3

All team members recorded their commitments to the project’s tasks and subsequently commented insightfully on their performance.

All team members recorded their commitments to the project’s tasks and subsequently commented on their performance.

identify team members contribution to the project outcomes.

Reflect on project outcomes. ILO3

All team members commented
reflectively and insightfully on their performance and how this impacted on project outcomes.

All team members commented
reflectively on their performance and how this impacted on project outcomes

The submission did not include a reflection on the project outcomes.