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	The work breakdown structure in project management	Beyond the Triple Constraint
	Value Proposition Canvas	Requirements management	Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
	Brainstorming technique	Scope creep	Success factors
	Project governance framework	Feasibility Study	Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
	Fuzzy Front End Management	Fuzzy Front End Management	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 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	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	Benefits Map
	Team Development	Dealing with conflicts (sources, escalation, containment)	Programmification of work (context) (no content)
	Managing projects in a functional organization	Active listening	Agile Methodology
	Belbin's Team Roles	Expectations Management	Challenges in cross-cultural project management
	MBTI	Negotiating successfully	Agile & Traditional PM cocktail
	Meeting strategies	Dan Pink on Motivation - Autonomy, mastery and purpose
	How to successfully go through the Five Stages of Team Development	Project sponsor

COMPLEXITY

Table 3.-Project aspect:COMPLEXITY

Project Canvas
Results	Timeline & Monitoring	Actions	Resources
Benefits realisation management	Life Cycle Model	Scheduling: Critical path, PERT, Gantt [1]	Cost vs. Price
The benefits of systems engineering	Stage-Gate Process	Types of dependencies	Estimations: Basic Techniques
Output, outcome, benefit	Agile Methodology	PERT/CPM	Reference Class Forecasting (RCF)
Benefits Map	Fuzzy Front End Management	Design thinking	Optimism bias, strategic misinterpretation and reference class forecasting
Creating a positive culture around failure in project management	Project Governance	Types of activities	Partnering
Negotiating successfully	Gantt Chart in Project Management	Construction scheduling using Location Based Scheduling instead of CPM	Earned Value Analysis
	Milestone	The procurement process	Financial appraisal of projects
	Project Control	Simon's four levels of control	Types of resources
	The best milestone plan is simple but with depths!	Theory of Constraint	Contracting and procurement
	Simon's four levels of control	Critical chain project management (CCPM)	Cost Estimation Techniques for Projects
			Integrated Cost and Schedule Control

UNCERTAINTY

Table 4.-Project aspect:UNCERTAINTY

Enabler	Project Canvas
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	Constraints	Change	Risk & Opportunities
	Recovery Project Management	Ideation tools (Brainstorming technique, 6 thinking hats)	Risk and Opportunities Management
	The light at the end of the tunnel: managing challenges at Heathrow Express Project	Change order	Impact and Probability in Risk Assessment
	Construction modularization from a lean perspective	Project Control	Risk register
	Dealing with conflict in project management	Contingency Reserves	Delphi Method (expert for identification)
		Crises Management - 3Rs - Regret, Reason, Remedy	Including Risk Management in Construction Projects
		Management of Project Change	Risk tolerances
		Antifragility	Risk Identification
		Coaching - Project Manager as Change Agent	Decision Tree
		Management of Project Change	Risk Quantification and Methods
			SWOT analysis