Project Doctor - the Project Canvas

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. About the CANVAS series: 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.

Episodes

S1E13 - on Resources

April 25, 2022 • 17 mins
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
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S1E12 - Third Parties

April 22, 2022 • 17 mins
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
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S1E11 - the Context of projects

March 15, 2022 • 16 mins
about Hofstede's cultural dimensions, and low-context vs. high-context communication cultures, and what societal aspects can mean for a project
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S1E10 - project Deliverables

March 2, 2022 • 19 mins
about producing deliverables, and using them - on life cycle, operationalisation, earned value, product quality; and on user training and getting the benefits
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S1E9 - managing Expectations

February 10, 2022 • 20 mins
about who has expectations about what; various helpful ways to characterize expectations; and an approach "conversation for action" that helps manage expectations
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S1E8 - about Planning

January 21, 2022 • 19 mins
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
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S1E7 - the Sponsor

December 24, 2021 • 17 mins
about different sponsor roles, the special relationship between project manager and sponsor, and various problems you could have with sponsors
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S1E6 - on Requirements and Design

December 17, 2021 • 19 mins
what are requirements, and which types are there; how to gather and document them, and how to validate designs against the requirements
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S1E5 - about Constraints

December 1, 2021 • 12 mins
tell apart real constraints from (limited) resources and from (optional) requirements; understand the most common types of constraints
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S1E4 - the End Users

November 23, 2021 • 16 mins
identifying the end user group(s), their concerns, and managing the change process that end users have to go through
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S1E3 - on Organization and Team

November 12, 2021 • 14 mins
how to define roles in your project organization, and some models to understand team behaviour
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S1E2 - about Goals

November 7, 2021 • 14 mins
understanding the types of goals in order to arrive at better alignment
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S1E1 - the Project Canvas

November 4, 2021 • 13 mins
introducing the project canvas as a tool to master complexity in projects
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