Conceptbox

Revision as of 16:20, 11 August 2017

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: PURPOSE, PEOPLE, COMPLEXITY and UNCERTAINTY.

PURPOSE

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

PURPOSE

PURPOSE

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|+'''Table 1.-Project aspect: Purpose'''
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|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]]
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|[[Vision Statement]]
|[[Scoping]]
|[[Triple Constraint]]
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|[[SMART goals]]
|[[Goal hierarchy or Goal Breakdown Structure]]
|[[Limitations of the iron triangle]]
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|[[Project charter]]
|1 [[The work breakdown structure in project management]]
|[[KPI]]
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|[[Value Canvas]]
|[[Requirements management]]
|[[Efficiency vs. Effectiveness]]
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|[[Brainstorming]]
|Scope creep (no content)
|[[Success factors]]
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|[[Project Governance]]
|Feasibility study (no content)
|[[Output, outcome, benefit]]
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|2 [[Front End Management]]
|[[Project Management in the Fuzzy Front End]]
|[[Benefits realisation management]]
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|[[Future Workshop]]
|[[Planning fallacy]]
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|[[Business Case]]
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==PEOPLE==

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|+'''Table 2.-Project aspect: People'''
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|rowspan="10" style=" background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;"|'''PEOPLE'''
'''Basic'''
* [[Shannon and Weaver Model for Communication]]
* Schein culture (no content)
'''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]]
* [[Followship]]
* Conceptual levels of competence (no content)
* Decision making skills (no content)
|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]]
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|[[Maslow hierarchy of needs]]
|[[Stakeholders]]
|[[Value Canvas]]
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|[[Managing meetings]]
|3 [[Stakeholder managing process]]
|Value to whom? (no content)
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|Roles and responsibilities (no content)
|[[Create a pitch (present ideas)]]
|Benefit map analysis (no content)
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|[[Team development]]
|[[Dealing with conflicts (sources, escalation, containment)]]
|Programmification of work (context) (no content)
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|[[Organisational structures and Project organization]]
|[[Active listening]]
|Agile methodologies and participatory design (no content)
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|[[Belbin’s team roles]]
|Expectations management (no content)
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|MBTI (no content)
|[[Negotiation skills]]
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|Role of the project sponsor (no content)
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|[[Dan Pink on Motivation - Autonomy, mastery and purpose]]
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==COMPLEXITY==


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|+'''Table 3.-Project aspect: Complexity'''
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|rowspan="15" style=" background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;"|'''COMPLEXITY'''
* [[Systems theory]]
|style=" width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''Timeline'''[[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]]
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|[[Life Cycle]]
|[[Scheduling: Critical path, PERT, Gantt]]
|[[Cost vs. Price]]
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|Stage Gate model (no content)
|[[Types of dependencies]]
|[[Estimations: Basic Techniques]]
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|Agile Methodology (no content)
|PERT (no content)
|[[Reference class forecasting]]
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|[[Front-end Management]]
|Behaviors in scheduling (no content)
|[[Optimism bias, strategic misinterpretation and reference class forecasting]]
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|[[Project Governance]]
|[[Types of activities]]
|Cash flow and payment milestones (no content)
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|[[Gantt Chart and Milestones]]
|Resources loading, leveling and crashing (no content)
|[[Earned Value]]
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|[[Milestone]]
|Contracting and Procurement (no content)
|[[Financial appraisal of projects]]
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|Control, Correct, Prevent (no content)
|Simon's four levels of control (no content)
|[[Types of resources]]
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|Monitoring (no content)
|Reporting (no content)
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|[[Earned Value]]
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|Theory of Constraints (no content)
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|[[Critical Chain]]
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|Balanced Sorecard (no content)
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|Contracting and Partnering (no content)
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==UNCERTAINTY==

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|+'''Table 4.-Project aspect: Uncertainty'''
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|rowspan="15" style=" background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;" |'''UNCERTAINTY'''
* Epistemic vs. Aleatory uncertainty (no content)
* 4  [[Lessons learned - a tool for sharing knowledge in project management]]
* [[Simon's four levels of control]]
* [[Earned Value]]
* [[One Page Project Management]]
* [[Cognitive biases]]
* [[The A3 report]]
* [[Balanced Scoreboard]]
|rowspan="15" style="width: 26%; background-color:white; vertical-align:top; text-align:left;"|'''Context'''[[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]]
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|Ideation tools (Brainstorming techniques, 6 thinking hats) (no content)
|[[Risk and Opportunity Management]]
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|Change order (no content)
|Impact vs. Probability (no content)
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|Project Control (no content)
|5  [[Risk register]]
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|Contingency plans (no content)
|Delphi Method (expert for identification) (no content)
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|[[Crises Management - 3Rs - Regret, Reason, Remedy]]
|[[Unknown unknowns]]
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|5  [[Recovery Project Management]]
|Risk tolerances (no content)
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|Antifragility/Resilience (no content)
|Scenario planning (no content)
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|Decision tree (no content)
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|Risk Quantification (no content)
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|[[SWOT]]
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|[[Mindfulness]]
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|6  [[Risk Identification]]
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|[[Bubble diagram]]
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|[[Risk Management in Construction]]
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