NEW! Human Design Pattern Thinking with Tyson Rydl

Prework: Wicked Problem Solving (PMI eLearning course) is suggested but not essential or, any additional Design Pattern Thinking use cases

What You Will Learn

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to: 

  • Conduct in-depth user research and develop empathy tools 
  • Ideate and explore creative problem-solving techniques 
  • Facilitate and leading design thinking exercises

Description

Ready to take your human-centered design thinking skills to the next level? This immersive two-day workshop empowers you to master innovative ideation techniques, rapid prototyping, and iterative testing, transforming insights into impactful solutions. You'll gain hands-on experience integrating user feedback directly into your projects and build the confidence to lead engaging design thinking sessions within your organization. 

You will deepen your comprehension of user research by practicing structured interviews, observational techniques, and synthesizing insights into detailed empathy maps and personas. Learn to translate user insights into actionable tools that guide project decisions, ensuring a strong user-centered foundation for your projects. 

Explore advanced ideation methods, including structured brainstorming, SCAMPER, and brainwriting techniques, to generate innovative and practical solutions. Emphasis on facilitation skills, idea prioritization, and refinement, to encourage confident leadership of creative problem-solving sessions within your teams. 

Develop a customer-centric mindset, learning how to understand the stakeholders you're designing for changes everything from requirements gathering, to solution development, and implementation.

Transform user insights into actionable tools, create compelling empathy maps, design personas that bring user perspectives to life, serving as reminders of who your stakeholders are. 

Integrate design thinking into your project framework and discover practical ways where design thinking creates the most value in the project lifecycle and how to measure its impact.

AGENDA

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  • Day One 

    • Practice structured user research methods, including interviews 
    • Explore advanced ideation methods 
    • Hands-on prototyping exercises 
    • Conduct structured user testing sessions 
    • Practice planning, structuring, and facilitating design thinking exercises 
     
    • Hands-on prototyping exercises 
    • Practice planning: structuring and facilitating
    • Practice planning: design thinking exercises 
    • User Testing and feedback integration 
    • Conclusion - final peer review of design pattern thinking
     

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PDU Allocation Table

The table below displays the number of professional development units (PDUs) awarded for each PMI® credential, as they align to the PMI Talent Triangle®. Power Skills and Business Acumen PDUs apply evenly across all credentials and Ways of Working PDUs apply only to specific credentials. PDUs will be added in full to all eligible credentials. *Please note that the asterisked row below applies to the PMI® Agile Certification Journey and includes Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM), Disciplined Agile® Senior Scrum Master (DASSM), Disciplined Agile® Coach (DAC), and Disciplined Agile® Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC) certifications.
Ways of Working Power Skills Business Acumen Total
CAPM® / PMI-CP™ / PMP® / PgMP® 7 7 0 14.00
PMI-ACP® / Agile* 2 0 0 2.00
PMI-SP® 2 0 0 2.00
PMI-RMP® 4 0 0 4.00
PfMP® 2 0 0 2.00
PMI-PBA® 2 0 0 2.00
Ways of Working Power Skills Business Acument Talent Triangle

Instructor(s)

Tyson

Tyson Rydl PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-SCP, PMI-RMP, PMI-PMOCP, DASSM, CSP-SM, SAFe Agilist, Citizen Developer

Ty is a technical program manager whose passion for organized success fuels his 20+ year IT career. When he's not busy leading teams in the educational, financial, government, and healthcare fields. When datacenter modernization projects became mundane, he's busy adding more certifications and skills to his list from construction management to delivering Agile instruction.
Teaching and serving as a PMI SME for many certification and eLearning course updates is a passion. You can find him at the intersection of delivering cloud services, cyber security, skills-based training, and program management.

Training Information

PDUs
14
Level
Core
Dates
17 - 18 September 2025
Length
2 Days

Price

Member Price
US$1735.00
(US$1648.00 before 21 July)
Nonmember Price
US$2112.00
(US$2006.00 before 21 July)
Government Price
US$1565.00
Student Price
US$767.00

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