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	Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) [1]	KPI
	Value Canvas	Requirements management	Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
	Brainstorming	Scope creep [2]	Success factors
	Project Governance	Feasibility study [3]	Output, outcome, benefit
	Front End Management [4]	Front End Management [5]	Benefits realisation management
	Future Workshop	Planning fallacy
	Business Case

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 Followship Conceptual levels of competence (no content) Decision making skills [7]	Team	Stakeholders	Users
	Maslow hierarchy of needs	Stakeholders	Value Canvas
	Managing meetings	Stakeholder managing process	Value to whom? (no content)
	Roles and responsibilities (no content)	Create a pitch (present ideas)	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’s team roles	Expectations management [10]
	MBTI [11]	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 [12]	Scheduling: Critical path, PERT, Gantt [13]	Cost vs. Price
	Stage Gate model (no content)	Types of dependencies	Estimations: Basic Techniques
	Agile Methodology (no content)	PERT (no content)	Reference Class Forecasting (RCF) [14]
	Front End Management[15]	Behaviors in scheduling (no content)	Optimism bias, strategic misinterpretation and reference class forecasting [16]
	Project Governance	Types of activities	Cash flow and payment milestones (no content)
	Gantt Chart and Milestones [17]	Resources loading, leveling and crashing (no content)	Earned Value [18]
	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 [19]
		Theory of Constraints (no content)
		Critical Chain [20]
		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) Lessons learned [21] Simon's four levels of control Earned Value [22] One Page Project Management Cognitive biases The A3 report Balanced scorecard	Context	Change	Risk & Opportunities
		Ideation tools (Brainstorming techniques, 6 thinking hats) (no content)	Risk and Opportunity Management [23]
		Change order (no content)	Impact vs. Probability (no content)
		Project Control (no content)	Risk Register
		Contingency plans (no content)	Delphi Method (expert for identification) (no content)
		Crises Management - 3Rs - Regret, Reason, Remedy	Unknown unknowns
		Recovery Management [24]	Risk tolerances (no content)
		Antifragility/Resilience (no content)	Scenario planning (no content)
			Decision tree (no content)
			Risk Quantification (no content)
			SWOT
			Mindfulness [25]
			Risk identification
			Bubble diagram [26]
			Risk Management in Construction [27]