Project Doctor - the Project Canvas

Apr 25 2022 4
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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.

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S1E13 - on Resources

Apr 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

S1E12 - Third Parties

Apr 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

S1E11 - the Context of projects

Mar 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

S1E10 - project Deliverables

Mar 02 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

S1E9 - managing Expectations

Feb 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

S1E8 - about Planning

Jan 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

S1E7 - the Sponsor

Dec 24 2021 17 mins  
about different sponsor roles, the special relationship between project manager and sponsor, and various problems you could have with sponsors

S1E6 - on Requirements and Design

Dec 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

S1E5 - about Constraints

Dec 01 2021 12 mins  
tell apart real constraints from (limited) resources and from (optional) requirements; understand the most common types of constraints

S1E4 - the End Users

Nov 23 2021 16 mins  
identifying the end user group(s), their concerns, and managing the change process that end users have to go through