Conceptbox

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


Table 1.-Project aspect: Purpose


Enabler

Project Canvas


PURPOSE

Vision


Scope


Success Criteria



Vision Statement

Scoping

Triple Constraint


SMART goals

Goal hierarchy or Goal Breakdown Structure

Limitations of the iron triangle


Project charter

1 The work breakdown structure in project management

KPI


Value Canvas

Requirements management

Efficiency vs. Effectiveness


Brainstorming

Scope creep (no content)

Success factors


Project Governance

Feasibility study (no content)

Output, outcome, benefit


2 Front End Management

Project Management in the Fuzzy Front End

Benefits realisation management


Future Workshop

Planning fallacy




Business Case






PEOPLE

Table 2.-Project aspect: People


Enabler

Project Canvas


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)

Team


Stakeholders


Users



Maslow hierarchy of needs

Stakeholders

Value Canvas


Managing meetings

3 ?Stakeholder managing process

Value to whom? (no content)


Roles and responsibilities (no content)

Create a pitch (present ideas)

Benefit map analysis (no content)


Team development

Dealing with conflicts (sources, escalation, containment)

Programmification of work (context) (no content)


Organisational structures and Project organization

Active listening

Agile methodologies and participatory design (no content)


Belbin’s team roles

Expectations management (no content)




MBTI (no content)

Negotiation skills






Role of the project sponsor (no content)






Dan Pink on Motivation - Autonomy, mastery and purpose




COMPLEXITY

Table 3.-Project aspect: Complexity


Enabler

Project Canvas


COMPLEXITY
* Systems theory

Timeline


Actions


Resources



Life Cycle

Scheduling: Critical path, PERT, Gantt

Cost vs. Price


Stage Gate model (no content)

Types of dependencies

Estimations: Basic Techniques


Agile Methodology (no content)

PERT (no content)

Reference class forecasting


Front-end Management

Behaviors in scheduling (no content)

Optimism bias, strategic misinterpretation and reference class forecasting


Project Governance

Types of activities

Cash flow and payment milestones (no content)


Gantt Chart and Milestones

Resources loading, leveling and crashing (no content)

Earned Value


Milestone

Contracting and Procurement (no content)

Financial appraisal of projects


Control, Correct, Prevent (no content)

Simon's four levels of control (no content)

Types of resources


Monitoring (no content)

Reporting (no content)






Earned Value






Theory of Constraints (no content)






Critical Chain






Balanced Sorecard (no content)






Contracting and Partnering (no content)




UNCERTAINTY

Table 4.-Project aspect: Uncertainty


Enabler

Project Canvas


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

Context


Change


Risk & Opportunities



Ideation tools (Brainstorming techniques, 6 thinking hats) (no content)

Risk and Opportunity Management


Change order (no content)

Impact vs. Probability (no content)


Project Control (no content)

5  Risk register


Contingency plans (no content)

Delphi Method (expert for identification) (no content)


Crises Management - 3Rs - Regret, Reason, Remedy

Unknown unknowns


5  Recovery Project Management

Risk tolerances (no content)


Antifragility/Resilience (no content)

Scenario planning (no content)




Decision tree (no content)




Risk Quantification (no content)




SWOT




Mindfulness




6  Risk Identification




Bubble diagram




Risk Management in Construction