The Project Journey Print (A3 paper folded to A4) (16.9" x 11.4")

Why a Project Journey Print?

The picture of the  “Journey into the Unknown” describes the most important aspects of a project, in a way that is understandable for everybody. Explaining the metaphor helps to

• invite people to professionally approach project work, in a human and intuitive way,
• gain a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary understanding of their venture,
• have a dialogue on a level playing field about the upcoming venture, between people who have different perspectives and levels of expertise in project management.

Project professionals can use it as a translation tool, in order to explain the nature of a project to people, who are not used to speak “project-management-ish”.

How to use Project Journey Print?

Use the metaphor in meetings before defining projects, e.g. in project ideation, kick-off workshops. Have it visible for everybody in the room, e.g. on the table, on a whiteboard. Explain the Project Journey in one minute and make the link to the Project Canvas.

This is how Over the Fence explains the project journey in less than one minute: https://youtu.be/1WDpJcEzniE

What is Project journey Print?

The Journey is the underlying metaphor of the Project Canvas created by the open source project initiative “Over the Fence”. The metaphor visualizes all important project building blocks. It works. And it is ...

• independent from the “school of project thinking” (e.g. agile, traditional, prototypical)
• compliant with established project management standards (on international level)
• understandable for all people in projects, from all kinds of professional disciplines and cultures.

Links:

Project Canvas A0 (availabe in shop)

Download the Digital Edition (overthefence.com.de/tools)

Read more about The Project Canvas - Magic Conversations for Interdisciplinary Teams

Podcast (German) - Project Canvas: Willst du das Projekt? - mit Karen Schmidt & Frank Habermann