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.

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

PURPOSE

Table 1.-Project aspect:PURPOSE

Enabler	Project Canvas
PURPOSE	Vision	Scope	Success Criteria
	Vision Statement	Scoping	Triple Constraint
	SMART goals	Project Scope Management	Limitations of the iron triangle
	Project Charter	Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) [1]	Beyond the Triple Constraint
	Value Proposition Canvas	Requirements management	Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
	Brainstorming technique	Scope creep [2]	Success factors
	Project governance framework	Feasibility study [3]	Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
	Front End Management [4]	Front End Management [5]	Benefits realisation management
	Future Workshop	Planning fallacy	Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
	Business Case	Goal hierarchy or Goal Breakdown Structure	Implementing KPIs

PEOPLE

Table 2.-Project aspect:PEOPLE

Enabler	Project Canvas
PEOPLE Basic Shannon and Weaver Model for Communication Schein culture [6] 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 [7]	Team	Stakeholders	Users
	Maslow hierarchy of needs	Stakeholders	Value Proposition Canvas
	Meetings Management	Stakeholder Management	Value to whom? (no content)
	Roles and responsibilities in project team	Stakeholders from a dynamic and network perspective	Benefit map analysis [8]
	Team development	Dealing with conflicts (sources, escalation, containment)	Programmification of work (context) (no content)
	Organisational structures and Project organization	Active listening	Agile methodologies [9]
	Belbin Team Roles	Expectations management [10]	Challenges in cross-cultural project management
	MBTI [11]	Negotiating successfully
	Meeting strategies	Dan Pink on Motivation - Autonomy, mastery and purpose
	How to successfully go through the Five Stages of Team Development

COMPLEXITY

Table 3.-Project aspect:COMPLEXITY

Project Canvas
Results	Timeline & Monitoring	Actions	Resources
Benefits realisation management	Life Cycle [12]	Scheduling: Critical path, PERT, Gantt [13]	Cost vs. Price
The benefits of systems engineering	Stage Gate model [14]	Types of dependencies	Estimations: Basic Techniques
Output, outcome, benefit	Agile Methodology [15]	PERT/CPM [16]	Reference Class Forecasting (RCF) [17]
Benefits Map	Front End Management[18]	Design thinking	Optimism bias, strategic misinterpretation and reference class forecasting [19]
Creating a positive culture around failure in project management	Project Governance	Types of activities	Partnering [20]
Negotiating successfully	Gantt Chart and Milestones [21]	Construction scheduling using Location Based Scheduling instead of CPM	Earned Value [22]
	Milestone	Procurement process [23]	Financial appraisal of projects
	Project control [24]	Simon's four levels of control [25]	Types of resources
	The best milestone plan is simple but with depths!	Balanced Sorecard (portfolio management) [26]	Contracting and procurement
	Simon's four levels of control	Earned Value [27]	Cost Estimation Techniques for Projects
	Project Control	Theory of Constraints [28]	Integrated Cost and Schedule Control
		Critical Chain [29]

UNCERTAINTY

Table 4.-Project aspect:UNCERTAINTY

Enabler	Project Canvas
UNCERTAINTY Epistemic vs. Aleatory uncertainty (no content) Lessons learned [30] Simon's four levels of control Earned Value [31] One Page Project Management Cognitive biases The A3 report Balanced scorecard	Constraints	Change	Risk & Opportunities
	Recovery Project Management	Ideation tools (Brainstorming technique, 6 thinking hats)	Risk and Opportunity Management [32]
	The light at the end of the tunnel: managing challenges at Heathrow Express Project	Change order [33]	Impact vs. Probability [34]
	Construction modularization from a lean perspective	Project Control [35]	Risk register
	Dealing with conflict in project management	Contingency Reserves [36]	Delphi Method (expert for identification) [37]
		Crises Management - 3Rs - Regret, Reason, Remedy	Risk Management in Construction [38]
		Management of Project Change	Risk tolerances [39]
		Antifragility/Resilience [40]	Scenario planning strategy [41]
		Coaching - Project Manager as Change Agent	Decision tree [42]
		Management of Project Change	Risk Quantification [43]
		The Role of Program Management in an Organisational Change	SWOT analysis
		Kotter's 8-Step Change Model as a tool in Program Management	Mindfulness [44]
			Risk Identification
			Bubble diagram [45]