Design Management
Active coordination of design teams, deliverables, and decisions across disciplines — keeping design development aligned with program cost and schedule.
What’s included
- Design deliverable schedule development and tracking.
- Multi-discipline design coordination and interface management.
- Design information flow management against program milestones.
- Coordination conflict identification and resolution.
- Design team accountability and milestone management.
- Design freeze and change control at key program gates.
On complex programs, coordinating the design process across multiple designers, disciplines, and sometimes multiple projects is a significant management challenge in its own right — one that, left unmanaged, produces coordination gaps, design information delivered out of sequence, and decisions made by one design discipline without proper regard to their consequences for another. Design management is the discipline of actively managing this process: coordinating design teams, tracking design deliverables against program milestones, and ensuring that design development stays aligned with the program's cost and schedule framework.
We provide design management as an active, hands-on function — chasing design information before it becomes a critical path issue, resolving coordination conflicts between disciplines, and holding design teams accountable to the milestones the wider program depends on.
Other parts of Program Management
