Project Doctor - the Project Canvas

The Project Doctor® podcasts give insights and practical advice on issues that all project managers run into. Listeners can expect a “5P” experience – with stories that are: professional, practical, personal, playful and created with passion. Grow your skills as you listen to, and learn from, each episode.<br />About the CANVAS series:<br />Looking for a solid map to navigate the projects landscape? Here it is, the Project Canvas – developed over a few decades of hands-on work.

S1E13 - on Resources

on various types of resources (materials, money, human hours, tools, facilities) and on how to keep track of them with the technique of earned value analysis

04-25
17:19

S1E12 - Third Parties

on third parties, specifically pressure groups; and on the "mutual gains" approach for engaging with negatively impacted third parties, which is a non-distributive and non-positional way of constructively negotiating based on understanding interests

04-22
17:40

S1E11 - the Context of projects

about Hofstede's cultural dimensions, and low-context vs. high-context communication cultures, and what societal aspects can mean for a project

03-15
16:43

S1E10 - project Deliverables

about producing deliverables, and using them - on life cycle, operationalisation, earned value, product quality; and on user training and getting the benefits

03-02
19:33

S1E9 - managing Expectations

about who has expectations about what; various helpful ways to characterize expectations; and an approach "conversation for action" that helps manage expectations

02-10
20:03

S1E8 - about Planning

about the key elements of planning: PBS, WBS, network, Gantt chart, milestones, critical path, baseline - and how to create a planning that your team can commit to

01-21
19:35

S1E7 - the Sponsor

about different sponsor roles, the special relationship between project manager and sponsor, and various problems you could have with sponsors

12-24
17:33

S1E6 - on Requirements and Design

what are requirements, and which types are there; how to gather and document them, and how to validate designs against the requirements

12-17
19:08

S1E5 - about Constraints

tell apart real constraints from (limited) resources and from (optional) requirements; understand the most common types of constraints

12-01
12:47

S1E4 - the End Users

identifying the end user group(s), their concerns, and managing the change process that end users have to go through

11-23
16:52

S1E3 - on Organization and Team

how to define roles in your project organization, and some models to understand team behaviour

11-12
14:55

S1E2 - about Goals

understanding the types of goals in order to arrive at better alignment

11-07
14:41

S1E1 - the Project Canvas

introducing the project canvas as a tool to master complexity in projects

11-04
13:14

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