The most successful Dynamic Planning projects occur when the people responsible for shepherding the project through planning and implementation share the values that guide the way the project is run and how the stakeholders are treated. The following Dynamic Planning values must be shared by the sponsor and the project management team for a successful dynamic planning process.

Community health: Holistic planning processes based on local values produce solutions that support healthy communities. Healthy communities improve the social, economic and physical well being of their people, places, and natural environments.

Collaboration: Each individual’s unique contribution supports the best outcome. When project sponsors maintain this value, stakeholders are viewed as members of the larger team who have valuable input and who are essential to implementation. Therefore, all relevant decision makers, immediately affected parties, potential supporters and blockers are involved before design begins and throughout the project design process.

Transparency: Clarity in rules, process and roles are essential to collaboration. Stakeholders know whether or not a process is genuinely collaborative and any lack of openness will quickly erode their trust in the process. All information relevant to decision making must be made available to the stakeholders.

Shared learning: Shared learning requires the involvement of all relevant viewpoints in the decision making process. Shared learning facilitates new understandings that can lead to a change in peoples’ perceptions and positions. Shared learning also reduces costly rework by assuring that a project plan includes the information required to assure its feasibility.

Direct, honest, and timely communication: Collaborative work, based on shared learning, requires frequent communication and feedback between the project sponsors and the stakeholders. These feedback loops provide all parties with the reasoning behind decisions and knowledge of how their input effected the outcome.