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Welcome to our Conceptbox - an online resource for project management tools, methods and theories. 

The concepts are organized in the following table, inspired by the Project Canvas and in line with the four perspectives on projects:

<span style="color: #c11e4a">PURPOSE</span>, <span style="color: #474099">PEOPLE</span>, <span style="color: #16898b">COMPLEXITY</span> and <span style="color: #1f8b43">UNCERTAINTY</span>.



This page is mostly oriented for project management information-seekers students or practitioners.

==PURPOSE==

'''<pre style="text-align:center; color: #c11e4a">Table 1.-Project aspect:PURPOSE</pre>'''

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!colspan="1" ; style="width: 20%; color: white; background-color: #c11e4a"|Enabler
!colspan="3" ; style="color: white; background-color: #c11e4a"|Project Canvas
|-
|rowspan="10" style=" background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;"|'''PURPOSE'''
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Vision'''[[File:Purpose.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Scope'''[[File:Scope.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Success Criteria'''[[File:Success-Criteria.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Vision Statement]]
|[[Scoping]]
|[[Triple Constraint]]
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|[[SMART goals]]
|[[Project Scope Management]]
|[[Limitations of the iron triangle]]
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|[[Project Charter]]
|[[The work breakdown structure in project management]] 
|[[Beyond the Triple Constraint]]
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|[[Value Proposition Canvas]]
|[[Requirements management]]
|[[Efficiency vs. Effectiveness]]
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|[[Brainstorming technique]]
|[[Scope creep]]
|[[Success factors]]
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|[[Project governance framework]]
|[[Feasibility Study]]
|[[Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)]]
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|[[Fuzzy Front End Management]]
|[[Fuzzy Front End Management]]
|[[Benefits realisation management]]
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|[[Future Workshop]]
|[[Planning fallacy]]
|[[Key Performance Indicators (KPI)]]
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|[[Business Case]]
|[[Goal hierarchy or Goal Breakdown Structure]]
|[[Implementing KPIs]]
|}

==PEOPLE==

'''<pre style="text-align:center; color: #474099">Table 2.-Project aspect:PEOPLE</pre>'''

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!colspan="1" style="width: 20%; color: white; background-color: #474099"|Enabler
!colspan="3" style="color: white; background-color: #474099"|Project Canvas
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|rowspan="10" style=" background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;"|'''PEOPLE'''
'''Basic'''
* [[Shannon and Weaver Model for Communication]]

'''Managing yourself'''
* [[Stephen Covey's seven principles of highly effective people]]
* [[David Allen's getting things done]]
'''Project Management and leadership competences'''
* [[The periodic table of project management competence elements]]
* [[Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership Model]]
* [[Leadership vs. Management]]
* [[Decision-making skills in project management]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Team'''[[File:Team.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Stakeholders'''[[File:Stakeholders.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Users'''[[File:Users.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Maslow hierarchy of needs]]
|[[Stakeholder Management]]
|[[Value Proposition Canvas]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Meetings Management]]
|[[Stakeholder Management Processes in Projects]]
|Value to whom? (no content)
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Roles and responsibilities in project team]]
|[[Stakeholders from a dynamic and network perspective]]
|[[Benefits Map]]
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|[[Team Development]]
|[[Conflict Resolution in Project Management]]
|[[Programmification of work]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Managing projects in a functional organization]]
|[[Improve communication with active listening]]
|[[Agile Methodology]]
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|[[Belbin's Team Roles]]
|[[Expectations Management]]
|[[Challenges in cross-cultural project management]]
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|[[MBTI]]
|[[Negotiation Skills]]
|[[Agile & Traditional PM cocktail]]
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|[[Meeting strategies]]
|[[Dan Pink on Motivation]]
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|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[How to successfully go through the Five Stages of Team Development]]
|[[Project sponsor]]
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|}

==COMPLEXITY==

'''<pre style="text-align:center; color: #16898b">Table 3.-Project aspect:COMPLEXITY</pre>'''

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!colspan="4" style="color: white; background-color: #16898b"|Project Canvas
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Results'''[[File:Milestones.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Timeline & Monitoring'''[[File:Milestones.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Actions'''[[File:Action.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Resources'''[[File:Resources.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Benefits Realisation Management (BRM)]]
|[[Life Cycle Model]]
|[[Choosing between critical path, PERT or Gantt as your project scheduling method]]
|[[Cost vs. Price]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Benefits of systems engineering]]
|[[Stage-Gate Process]]
|[[Types of dependencies]]
|[[Estimations: Basic Techniques]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Output, outcome, benefit]]
|[[Agile Methodology]]
|[[PERT/CPM]]
|[[Reference Class Forecasting (RCF)]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Benefits Map]]
|[[Fuzzy Front End Management]]
|[[Design thinking]]
|[[Optimism bias, strategic misinterpretation and reference class forecasting]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Creating a positive culture around failure in project management]]
|[[Governance of Project Management]]
|[[Types of activities]]
|[[Partnering]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Negotiating successfully]]
|[[Gantt Chart in Project Management]]
|[[Construction scheduling using Location Based Scheduling instead of CPM]]
|[[Earned Value Analysis]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Benefits Realization Management to Maximize Project Effectiveness]]
|[[Milestones in Project Planning]]
|[[The procurement process]]
|[[Financial appraisal of projects]]
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|[[Project Control]]
|[[Simon's four levels of control]]
|[[Types of resources]]
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|[[The best milestone plan is simple but with depths!]]
|[[Theory of Constraint]]
|[[Contracting and procurement]]
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|[[Simon's four levels of control]]
|[[Critical chain project management (CCPM)]]
|[[Cost Estimation Techniques for Projects]]
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|[[Cash flow and milestone payments]]
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|[[Integrated Cost and Schedule Control]]
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|}

==UNCERTAINTY==

'''<pre style="text-align:center; color: #1f8b43">Table 4.-Project aspect:UNCERTAINTY</pre>'''

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!colspan="1" style="width: 20%; color: white; background-color: #1f8b43"|Enabler
!colspan="3" style="color: white; background-color: #1f8b43"|Project Canvas
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|rowspan="11" style=" background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''UNCERTAINTY'''
* Epistemic vs. Aleatory uncertainty (no content)
* [[Lessons learned]]
* [[Simon's four levels of control]]
* [[Earned Value Analysis]]
* [[One Page Project Management]]
* [[Cognitive biases]]
* [[The A3 report]]
* [[Balanced scorecard]]
* [[Organisational resilience with mindfulness]]
* [[Scenario Planning Strategy]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;"|'''Constraints'''[[File:Context.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Change'''[[File:Change.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Risk & Opportunities'''[[File:Risks.PNG|frameless|left|50px]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Recovery Project Management]]
|Ideation tools ([[Brainstorming technique]], [[6 thinking hats]]) 
|[[Risk and Opportunities Management]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[The light at the end of the tunnel: managing challenges at Heathrow Express Project]]
|[[Change order]]
|[[Impact and Probability in Risk Assessment]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Construction modularization from a lean perspective]]
|[[Project Control]]
|[[Risk register]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
|[[Dealing with conflict in project management]]
|[[Contingency Reserves]]
|[[Delphi Method (expert for identification)]]
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|[[Crises Management - 3Rs - Regret, Reason, Remedy]]
|[[Including Risk Management in Construction Projects]]
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|[[Management of Project Change]]
|[[Risk tolerances]]
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|[[Antifragility]]
|[[Risk Identification]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
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|[[Coaching - Project Manager as Change Agent]]
|[[Decision Tree]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
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|[[Management of Project Change]]
|[[Risk Quantification and Methods]]
|-style=" background-color:white;"
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|[[SWOT analysis]]
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