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	Project Scope Control Management	The Triple Constraint in Project Management
	SMART goals - A Project Manager Tool	Project Scope Management	Limitations of the iron triangle
	Project Charter	Work Breakdown Structure	Beyond the Triple Constraint
	Value Proposition Canvas	Requirements management	Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
	Brainstorming technique	Scope creep	Project Management Success Factors
	Project governance framework	Feasibility Study	Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
	Fuzzy Front End Management	Fuzzy Front End Management	Benefits Realization Management to Maximize Project Effectiveness
	Future workshop method	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 & Weaver Model for Communication Managing yourself Stephen Covey's seven principles Getting Things Done in Project Management: The Five Phases of Project Planning Project Management and leadership competences The Periodic Table of Project Management 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)
	Organisational structures and Project organization	Active listening	Agile Methodology
	Belbin 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

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

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