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	Goal hierarchy or Goal Breakdown Structure	Limitations of the iron triangle
	Project charter	1 The work breakdown structure in project management	KPI
	Value Canvas	Requirements management	Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
	Brainstorming	Scope creep (no content)	Success factors
	Project Governance	Feasibility study (no content)	Output, outcome, benefit
	2 Front End Management	Project Management in the Fuzzy Front End	Benefits realisation management
	Future Workshop	Planning fallacy
	Business Case

PEOPLE

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	3 Stakeholder managing process	Value to whom? (no content)
		Leadership vs. Management		Roles and responsibilities (no content)	Create a pitch (present ideas)	Benefit map analysis (no content)
		Followship		Team development	Dealing with conflicts (sources, escalation, containment)	Programmification of work (context) (no content)
		Conceptual levels of competence (no content)		Organisational structures and Project organization	Active listening	Agile methodologies and participatory design (no content)
		Decision making skills (no content)		Belbin’s team roles	Expectations management (no content)
				MBTI (no content)	Negotiation skills
					Role of the project sponsor (no content)
					Dan Pink on Motivation - Autonomy, mastery and purpose

COMPLEXITY

Table 3.-Project aspect: Complexity

Enabler	Project Canvas
COMPLEXITY Systems theory	Timeline	Actions	Resources
	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)
		Earned Value
		Theory of Constraints (no content)
		Critical Chain
		Balanced Sorecard (no content)
		Contracting and Partnering (no content)

UNCERTAINTY

Table 4.-Project aspect: Uncertainty

Enabler	Project Canvas
UNCERTAINTY Epistemic vs. Aleatory uncertainty (no content) 4 Lessons learned - a tool for sharing knowledge in project management Simon's four levels of control Earned Value One Page Project Management Cognitive biases The A3 report Balanced Scoreboard	Context	Change	Risk & Opportunities
		Ideation tools (Brainstorming techniques, 6 thinking hats) (no content)	Risk and Opportunity Management
		Change order (no content)	Impact vs. Probability (no content)
		Project Control (no content)	5 Risk register
		Contingency plans (no content)	Delphi Method (expert for identification) (no content)
		Crises Management - 3Rs - Regret, Reason, Remedy	Unknown unknowns
		5 Recovery Project Management	Risk tolerances (no content)
		Antifragility/Resilience (no content)	Scenario planning (no content)
			Decision tree (no content)
			Risk Quantification (no content)
			SWOT
			Mindfulness
			6 Risk Identification
			Bubble diagram
			Risk Management in Construction