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
	Project Vision Statement	Scoping	Triple Constraint / Iron triangle
	SMART goals - A Project Manager Tool	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	Resource-Constrained Critical Path Method	Benefits Realization Management to Maximize Project Effectiveness
	Future Workshop	Planning fallacy	Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
	Resource allocation and crashing	Project Scope Control Management	Projects integrating Sustainable Methods (PRiSM)
	Goal hierarchy or Goal Breakdown Structure	Implementing KPIs	Business Case

PEOPLE

Table 2.-Project aspect:PEOPLE

Enabler	Project Canvas
PEOPLE Basic Shannon & Weaver Model for Communication Managing yourself Stephen Covey's seven principles 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's Hierarchy of Needs	Stakeholder Management	Value Proposition Canvas
	Meetings Management	Stakeholder Management Processes in Projects
	Roles and responsibilities in project team	Stakeholders from a dynamic and network perspective	Benefits Map
	Team Development	Conflict Resolution in Project Management	Programmification of work
	Managing projects in a functional organization	Improve communication with active listening	Agile Methodology
	Belbin's Team Roles	Expectations Management	Challenges in cross-cultural project management
	MBTI	Negotiation Skills	Agile & Traditional PM cocktail
	Meeting strategies	Dan Pink on Motivation	Communication and Media Richness Assurance in High-performance Projects
	How to successfully go through the Five Stages of Team Development	Project sponsor

COMPLEXITY

Table 3.-Project aspect:COMPLEXITY

Complexity
0. Foundational elements: Systems engineering ([1], [2]) Connecting the dots: When – the scientific secrets of perfect timing	1. Scoping: What to do?: Pooled, Sequential & Reciprocal dependence([3]) Work break down structure (WBS)([4])	2.Estimating: ? Top-down vs ground up estimations([5]) Estimation Techniques([6], [7]) Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)([8],[9]) Reference class forecasting([10],[11], [12]) Successive principle (cost or schedule)([13])	3. Scheduling: When to do it?: Double diamond([14],[15], [16], [17]) Kanban([18],[19], [20]) SCRUM ([21], [22], [23], [24]) GANTT([25], [26], [27], [28]) Milestone plan ([29]) Location Based Scheduling([30],[31]) Temporal dependencies/ Lag & Lead([32],[33]) Network Planning ([34]) Parkinson’s Law ([35], [36])	4. Resourcing: Who does what?: Type of resources ([37]) Critical chain ([38], [39], [40])
	5. Costing: How much?: Cost build up Cost planning ([41]) Cash flow ([42], [43])	6. Improving: Can we do it better?: Multi-tasking Resources leveling and crashing ([44]) Lean construction([45],[46]) Last planner system ([47]) Value added work ([48], [49])	7. Contracting: Make or Buy?: Types of contracts ([50]) Fee-based contracts Fixed-price contracts ([51]) Incentive contracts Adversarial Relations ([52], [53]) Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)([54], [55])

UNCERTAINTY

Uncertainty
0. Foundational elements: The Johari window / Rumfelds matrix ([56]) Types of uncertainty: Epistemic / Aleatory([57]]) Levels of uncertainty (i.e. risk, uncertainty, ignorance) Connecting the dots: Resilient projects & organizations ([58]) Antifragility ([59], [60])	1. Anticipating: ? Risk Identification([61],[62], [63] Pre-mortem analysis ([64], [65]) Fishbone diagram / root cause analyses ([66], [67]) SWOT Analysis([68], [69]) Brainstorming ([70],[71]) Risk register ([72], [73],[74]) Risk assessment([75],[76]) Risk treatment ([77]) Contingency plans ([78],[79]) Technology and System Readiness ([80])	2. Monitoring: Conformance / performance Milestone trend analysis ([81]) Burn down charts ([82]) Earned value ([83], [84], [85]) Project reporting ([86]) Project war rooms ([87], [88]) Project dashboard ([89])	3. Adapting: Corrective and Preventive Actions ([90]) Adaptation and agile ([91]) Scope creep ([92]) Change requests Resilience management	4. Learning: Paradox for project planning ([93]) Learning plan ([94], [95]) Lessons learned ([96]) Risk-based Learning ([97]) Continuous Improvement ([98],[99])
	5. Deciding: Scenario Analysis ([100], [101]) Satisficing The Decision Matrix ([102]) Choosing by Advantages (CBA) Eisenhower matrix ([103],[104]) Robust Decision Making ([105],[106])	6. Interpreting: Biases ([107]) Kahneman - Two Thinking Systems([108],[109]) Strategic misrepresentation ([110],[111]) The Affect Heuristic ([112]) Social Amplification of Risk