Construction projects must make many important decisions—getting them right and on time is crucial for the project's success and delivering value to the client. However, making project decisions can be challenging, and documenting them doesn’t always happen. And often, team members become frustrated with the lack of decisions and start pointing fingers at each other. Aligning your team to develop a clear process and leverage Choosing By Advantages (CBA) solves these challenges.

How can teams ensure that their decisions are transparent and well-founded, aligning with project goals? CBA provides a clear, logical framework for making better decisions— efficiently, transparently, and in alignment with lean thinking. Teams that systematically use CBA significantly reduce negative design iterations, saving time and money for the owner while minimizing frustration. They align on what truly matters, gain a shared understanding of project decisions, and discover innovative design and construction solutions.

In this webinar, we will discuss how CBA can drive project success. Paz, Annett, and Randi have just 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!

Moderator: 
Jeff Long
Jeffery Long has practical business experience in project management, executive coaching, and continuous improvement, having managed numerous projects in the construction, land development, and telecommunications industries and served a varied customer base, including U. S. Department of Energy, Bechtel, Chevron, Shell, AT&T, Genentech, and Roche. Jeff served as the Global Operational Excellence Lead at Roche/Genentech, ensuring capability-building programs met ongoing business needs.  Key among them was implementing CBA as a key approach for making decisions.

Speakers: 
Paz Arroyo
Paz is a Quality Leader at DPR Construction, she supports the implementation of a Culture of Quality across the project lifecycle nationally. She has construction industry experience internationally, with a strong background in lean. She earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley studying decision-making for sustainable design. She is also the LCI NorCal training lead.

Annett Schöttle
Annett 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.

Randi Christensen
Randi 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.

Recommended Reading:  
Building Decisions: How Choosing by Advantages Drives Project Success

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