Programme Management
7 posts tagged with “Programme Management”
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Bodies of Knowledge: Relationality and Norm-Critical Awareness
The Design in Programme Management series examines how designers navigate the institutional dynamics of programme-led organisations: the epistemological tension, the cross-cutting value proposition,...
Design in Programme Cultures: Idealism, Capture, and What It Costs
This post synthesises the literature on what happens when Design enters programme-management-led organisations - a common scenario, or situation in public sector and healthcare contexts. It draws...
The Reification Gap: How Institutional Governance Transforms Design Understanding
In an earlier post, I discussed Gedenryd's (1998) identification of a fundamental discrepancy in design methodology: the gap between "the received, theoretical views of how things ought to work, and...
Translating Between Worlds: Boundary Objects in Programme Management
The previous post argued that service design offers programme management cultures three things they cannot generate from their own logic: the cross-cutting view, the surfacing of invisible decisions,...
What Service Design Actually Offers Programme Management
Programme management operates through decomposition. A large initiative is broken into programmes; programmes are broken into projects; projects are broken into workstreams; workstreams are broken...
Beyond Technomagic: What Military Design Teaches Public Sector Transformation
Throughout this series, I have developed a framework - state spaces, the planning/design distinction, grammars, constraints - and applied it to the conceptual infrastructure of service design. This...
What Works, for Whom, in What Circumstances? Realist Evaluation and Design's Theory of Change
In a previous post I worked through von Busch and Palmås's (2023) Realdesign propositions against my experience at SCÖ, and the exercise left me with a question I could not answer within their...