Project Doctor - the Project Canvas

Ralph Goossens
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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.

  1. 04/25/2022

    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

    17 min

  2. 04/22/2022

    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

    18 min

  3. 03/15/2022

    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

    17 min

  4. 03/02/2022

    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

    20 min

  5. 02/10/2022

    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

    20 min

  6. 01/21/2022

    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

    20 min

  7. 12/24/2021

    S1E7 - the Sponsor

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

    18 min

  8. 12/17/2021

    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

    19 min
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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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