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.

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	Work Breakdown Structure (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	Project Management in the Fuzzy Front End	Benefits realisation management
	Future Workshop	Planning fallacy
	Business Case

Table 2.-Project aspect: People

Enabler				Project Canvas
Basic	Managing yourself	Project Management and leadership competences	PEOPLE	Team	Stakeholders	Users
Shannon and Weaver Model for Communication	Stephen Covey's seven principles of highly effective people	The periodic table of project management competence elements		Maslow hierarchy of needs	Stakeholders	Value Canvas
Schein culture (no content)	David Allen's getting things done	Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership Model		Managing meetings	Stakeholder managing process	Value to whom? (no content)
1	2	Leadership vs. Management		Roles and responsibilities (no content)	Create a pitch (present ideas)	Benefit map analysis (no content)
1	2	Followship		Team development	Dealing with conflicts (sources, escalation, containment)	Programmification of work (context) (no content)
1	2	Conceptual levels of competence (no content)		Organisational structures and Project organization	Active listening	Agile methodologies and participatory design (no content)
1	2	Decision making skills (no content)		Belbin’s team roles	Expectations management (no content)	6
1	2	3		MBTI (no content)	Negotiation skills	6
1	2	3		4	Role of the project sponsor (no content)	6
1	2	3		4	Dan Pink on Motivation - Autonomy, mastery and purpose	6

Table 3.-Project aspect: Complexity

Enabler		Project Canvas
	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

Table 4.-Project aspect: Uncertainty

Enabler	Project Canvas
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	Unknown unknowns
Cognitive biases		Recovery Project 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