Models, Methods & Artifacts
The PM-Dictionary is all about consolidating the project management best practices and components from leading project management frameworks into a consolidated master list of Models, Methods & Artifacts. This will act as a reference material for the project management community once it is fully developed. If you are interested to participate in this project. It is very easy to participate. All you need to do is to post your entry in the discussion forum of PM-Dictionary, which will be added to this list.
- Active listening
- Affinity diagrams
- Agile Charter
- Agile Environment
- Agile Manifesto and the 12 agile principles
- Agile PMO
- Agile roles & responsibilities
- Alternatives analysis
- Application and Benefits of Agile in EPC Projects
- Assumption and constraint analysis
- Bench marking
- Brainstorming
- Cause & Effect Diagrams
- Change control process
- Check sheets
- Check lists
- Control charts
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Cost Of Quality
- Decision tree analysis
- Document analysis
- Earned value analysis
- Emotional intelligence
- Flow charts
- Focus groups
- Hierarchical charts
- Histograms
- Influence diagrams
- Iteration burn down chart
- Logical data model
- Make or buy analysis
- Market research
- Matrix diagrams
- Mind mapping
- Multi criteria decision analysis
- Performance reviews
- Probability & Impact matrix
- Process analysis
- Proposal evaluation
- Questionnaires and surveys
- Regression analysis
- Reserve analysis
- Risk data quality assessment
- Risk parameters
- Risk probability and impact assessment
- Root cause analysis
- Scatter diagrams
- Sensitivity analysis
- Simulation
- Situational Leadership II by Ken Blanchard
- Swarming
- Stakeholder analysis
- Stakeholder mapping / representation
- Statistical sampling
- Story points
- SWOT analysis
- Technical performance analysis
- Trend analysis
- Variance analysis
- Velocity
- What-if-Scenario Analysis
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
- Communication styles assessment
- Conflict management
- Cultural awareness
- Decision making
- Facilitation
- Influencing
- Leadership
- Meeting management
- Motivation
- Negotiation
- Networking
- Nominal group technique
- Observation / Conversation
- Political awareness
- Team building
- Voting
- Feedback
- Presentations
- Text oriented formats
- Advertising
- Agile release planning
- Analogous estimating
- Auditing
- Bidder conferences
- Bottom up estimating
- Change control tools
- Claims administration
- Co-location
- Communication methods
- Communication models
- Communication requirements analysis
- Communication technology
- Context diagram
- Contingent response strategies
- Cost aggregation
- Critical path method
- Decomposition
- Dependency determination and integration
- Design for X
- Expert judgment
- Financing
- Funding limit reconciliation
- Ground rules
- Historical information review
- Individual and team assessments
- Information management
- Inspections
- Knowledge management
- Leads and lags
- Meetings
- Organizational theory
- Parametric estimation
- Pre-assignment
- Precedence diagramming method
- Problem solving
- Product analysis
- Project management information system
- Project reporting
- Prompt lists
- Prototypes
- Quality improvement methods
- Recognition and rewards
- Representations of uncertainty
- Resource optimization
- Risk categorization
- Rolling wave planning
- Schedule compression
- Schedule network analysis
- Source selection analysis
- Strategies for opportunities
- Strategies for overall project risks
- Strategies for threats
- Test and inspection planning
- Testing / product evaluations
- Three point estimating
- To-complete performance index (TCPI)
- Training
- Virtual teams
Mastery of tools, techniques and methods differentiates good project managers from bad project managers
Project management situations are dynamic. The knowledge of which methods&tools to use when is key to project manager’s success. Project management methods and tools are constantly evolving, and at the same time they do not get obsolete. Hence the time spent in mastering them is a good investment for enhancing one’s effectiveness as project managers at the work place. When we analyse the bodies of knowledge of project management, it is the repetition of tools and techniques that makes them very bulky and difficult to read and understand. Once you understand the basic methods and tools, mastering professional project management becomes much easier.