Conceptbox
From apppm
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.
This page is mostly oriented for project management information-seekers students or practitioners.
Enabler | Project Canvas | ||
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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 | WBS | KPI | |
Value Canvas | Requirements management | Efficiency vs. Effectiveness | |
Brainstorming | Scope creep (no content) | Success factors | |
Project Governance | Feasibility study (no content) | Output, outcome, benefit | |
Front End Management | Front End Management | Benefits realisation management | |
Future Workshop | Planning fallacy | ||
Business Case |
Enabler | Project Canvas | |||
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COMPLEXITY | Timeline | Actions | Resources | |
Systems theory | 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) | 4 | ||
2 | Earned Value | 4 | ||
2 | Theory of Constraints (no content) | 4 | ||
222 | Critical Chain | 4 | ||
2 | Balanced Sorecard (no content) | 4 | ||
2 | Contracting and Partnering (no content) | 4 |
Enabler | Project Canvas | ||
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UNCERTAINTY | Context | Change | Risk & Opportunities |
Epistemic vs. Aleatory uncertainty (no content) | Ideation tools (Brainstorming techniques, 6 thinking hats) (no content) | Risk and Opportunity Management | |
Lessons learned - a tool for sharing knowledge in project management | Change order (no content) | Impact vs. Probability (no content) | |
Simon's four levels of control | Project Control (no content) | Risk register | |
Earned Value | Contingency plans (no content) | Delphi Method (expert for identification) (no content) | |
One Page Project Management | Crises Management-3Rs-Regret, Reason, Remedy | Uknown-unknowns | |
Cognitive biases | Recovery Management | Risk tolerances (no content) | |
The A3 report | Antifragility/Resilience (no content) | Scenario planning (no content) | |
Balanced Scoreboard | 2 | Decision tree (no content) | |
1 | 2 | Risk Quantification (no content) | |
1 | 2 | SWOT | |
1 | 2 | Mindfulness | |
1 | 2 | Risk Identification | |
1 | 2 | Bubble diagram | |
1 | 2 | Risk Management in Construction |