PREVIEW: Overview of Modules Three – Five

The full version of this course includes five video lectures.

Module 1

• Brief bio of presenter’s pioneering of VM/ VE internationally and his contribution to
  methodology as an Organisational Psychologist
• Australian VM standards in detail with important definitions
• History of development of VM/ VE in USA and Australia
• First key concept. The importance of consensus in collaborative decision making

Module 2

• Similarities of VM/ VE in detail
• Differences between VM and VE
• The “Job Plan”: the essence of the methodology outline
• Scoping Phase
• Detailed analysis of Project VM (often called Optioneering)

Module 3

• The Information Phase in detail
• Techniques for transferring critical project information
• Functional Identification and Verb/ Noun analysis
• Techniques for Functional Identification
• FAST Diagrams
• SMART Value Tree
• Link Thinking Hierarchy
• Functional Analysis intro

Module 4

• Functional Analysis detail
• Contextualised Functional Identification
• Creative thinking techniques
• SCAMPER in the Speculation Phase
• Evaluation Phase
• Reporting, Planning, Implementation Phases (the end of the “Job Plan”)

Module 5

• Why VM/ VE works
• VM/ VE roles (facilitator and client)
• Benefits of VM/ VE to project
• Value to clients
• What VM and VE is not
• Some success stories

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