Project Doctor - the Project Canvas
Business & Economics Podcasts
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.
Location:
United States
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Episodes
S1E13 - on Resources
4/25/2022
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
Duration:00:17:19
S1E12 - Third Parties
4/22/2022
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
Duration:00:17:40
S1E11 - the Context of projects
3/15/2022
about Hofstede's cultural dimensions, and low-context vs. high-context communication cultures, and what societal aspects can mean for a project
Duration:00:16:43
S1E10 - project Deliverables
3/2/2022
about producing deliverables, and using them - on life cycle, operationalisation, earned value, product quality; and on user training and getting the benefits
Duration:00:19:33
S1E9 - managing Expectations
2/10/2022
about who has expectations about what; various helpful ways to characterize expectations; and an approach "conversation for action" that helps manage expectations
Duration:00:20:03
S1E8 - about Planning
1/21/2022
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
Duration:00:19:35
S1E7 - the Sponsor
12/24/2021
about different sponsor roles, the special relationship between project manager and sponsor, and various problems you could have with sponsors
Duration:00:17:33
S1E6 - on Requirements and Design
12/17/2021
what are requirements, and which types are there; how to gather and document them, and how to validate designs against the requirements
Duration:00:19:08
S1E5 - about Constraints
12/1/2021
tell apart real constraints from (limited) resources and from (optional) requirements; understand the most common types of constraints
Duration:00:12:47
S1E4 - the End Users
11/23/2021
identifying the end user group(s), their concerns, and managing the change process that end users have to go through
Duration:00:16:52
S1E3 - on Organization and Team
11/12/2021
how to define roles in your project organization, and some models to understand team behaviour
Duration:00:14:55
S1E2 - about Goals
11/7/2021
understanding the types of goals in order to arrive at better alignment
Duration:00:14:41
S1E1 - the Project Canvas
11/4/2021
introducing the project canvas as a tool to master complexity in projects
Duration:00:13:14