The Canvas Directory
Project canvases.
A project on one page: purpose, people, and what done means, agreed before the plan exists.
Project Canvas (DTU)
Twelve blocks that give a project team one shared picture: purpose to milestones on a single page.
by Thijs van Tilburg & Thomas Simon Olesen & Simon Stubben & Sune Liengard & Martin Vyrostko & Nina Bonne Breum (Technical University of Denmark), 2014
Project Canvas (Nieto-Rodriguez)
The HBR-era project one-pager: foundation, people, and creation of a project examined before the plan exists.
by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, 2019
AI in Government Suitability Canvas
Asks whether a public-sector problem should be solved with AI at all, before anyone starts building.
by OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, 2026
Data Collaboratives Canvas
Designs a data-sharing partnership between organisations before anyone signs anything.
by The GovLab (The GovLab, NYU), 2018
Digital Policy Model Canvas
Puts a policy proposal on one page so its assumptions can be argued with before it is drafted.
by The GovLab (The GovLab, NYU), 2017
The Design Thinking Canvas
One sheet that holds a whole design-thinking engagement: people, problem, vision, solution, impact and how it gets managed.
by What Could Be Ltd, 2019
5W2H
Seven questions — What, Why, Who, When, Where, How, How Much — for scoping a plan before it's built.
by Quality-management tradition
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This workshop was incredibly effective for our remote team! We adapted it slightly for a virtual setting and it worked wonderfully. The key was breaking into smaller breakout rooms.
Great resource! One tip: prepare all materials the day before to avoid any last-minute rushes.
Used this for our quarterly planning session. The structured approach really helped us stay on track!