Project 2014

Project Canvas (DTU)

Twelve blocks that give a project team one shared picture: purpose to milestones on a single page.

What it is

Twelve building blocks covering the questions every project answers eventually, ideally early: purpose, scope, success criteria, outcome, team, stakeholders, users, resources, constraints, risks, milestones, actions. Built for the kickoff conversation, not the steering-committee binder.

Reach for it when

• A kickoff where half the room learned the project name that morning
• A project brief that runs nine pages and still doesn't say what done means
• A student or volunteer team that needs structure without process weight

Running it

1. Fill purpose, scope, and success criteria as a group before anything else. 30 minutes, most of the arguing.
2. Divide the remaining blocks into pairs and fill them in parallel, then present back.
3. Read the whole canvas aloud once. Contradictions between blocks surface immediately.
4. Revisit at each milestone; the canvas is the status page.