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Context Sensitive Solutions Technical Assistance: Minnesota Department of Transportation

Key Takeaways

Upon their observations of the “Advanced Flexibility in Design” workshop, the SMEs provided a set of recommendations to the workshop organizers and instructors for improving the workshop. Overall, the course was very well constructed, with an appropriate duration and quantity of content. Structural modifications are not necessary or recommended. The recommendations relate mainly to the content of the sessions. Those recommendations are listed below, with greater detail provided in the following pages.

  1. Place a greater emphasis on context and how it impacts design choices.
  2. Place a greater emphasis on how flexibility improves responsiveness to context.
  3. Place greater emphasis on how to find alternatives.
  4. Place greater emphasis on the importance of the purpose and need statement for achieving right-size solutions.
  5. Highlight the importance of outcomes and broader performance metrics.
Updated: 7/27/2017
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