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Presentation Title and Goals

Presentation Title:

Design Thinking and Design Sprints

Goals (By the end of the presentation, the attendees will be able to):

Use Design Sprints to aim their efforts at hitting clearly defined goals when kicking off a new product, or solving problems with an existing product.

Presentation Topics:

• Implementation of a Design Sprint utilizing a combination of Creativity/Innovation and design Thinking to achieve a new product or service in a limited time period. This is the methodology developed by IDEO Corporation and implemented within Google for new product and service development.

Practice Exercises:

• Participants will practice key parts of a design sprint including brainstorming, selection process and create an elevator speech as an output for the exercise.

Bio

Martin Wartenberg
Lead Instructor for Project Management and Systems Engineering
University of California, Irvine

Marty is currently working in two roles, as the Chief Inventor for ZB Global Design Center, He consults with and manages high technology and Science based projects in the Southern California area for companies including; the Salk Institute, DJ Orthopedics and the Wind River Division of the Intel Corporation. He has worked in various industries including Aerospace, Commercial Product Development, Oil Field Instrumentation and Bio Technology.

Marty has worked with teams both co-located and virtual in Countries around the World. In his other role, Marty is an instructor for UCI in Project Management and Leadership and has been teaching for International Students over the last five years.

Marty is the former VP of Engineering of Interstate Electronics (now part of L-3 Com) and has held Project, Program and Executive positions in various high technology companies. He is an active member of PMI and is a former OC Chapter President and a Fellow of the Chapter. He has both an Engineering background in Electrical Engineering and an MBA and is a licensed professional engineer.

There are 4 PDUs for this event

PDU Category: Technical

Location

Vanguard University 
Smith  building (#15), Room 101
55 Fair Dr., Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Cost

PMI-OC Members $45 pre-registered, $60 by check or cash at the door
Non-Members $50 pre-registered, $60 by check or cash at the door

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