Tools & Models

Project Design Canvas

Defining a project accurately is critical to its success. The Project Design Canvas is a visual tool that ensures you are addressing the most important components of a project and that you do so consistently.

Project Design Canvas
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The package

What the download contains

Project Design Canvas — download package
  1. The UNITE Navigator, offering an overview of all UNITE models
  2. The Project Design Canvas with related explanations
  • Ensures you are adressing the most important elements for project success
  • Enables joint understanding of the core pillars of a project
  • Provides guiding questions, so you can use the Canvas with ease

The case

Why we use it

The early stages of a project are critical in determining its success. Without proper planning, projects are doomed to failure. The Project Design Canvas ensures that proper consideration is given to all the important elements of a project before valuable resources are squandered. The Canvas is also a resource that helps keep projects on-track, on-task, and on-budget, throughout the project's lifespan.

The mechanics

How It Works

The Project Design Canvas is organized into 6 big categories: the project direction, which the project stakeholders decide upon, the project strategy, it's resources, project planning as well as project control. The Canvas takes a realistic look at everyone and everything potentially affected by a project, and what role they should have in the project's progress. Importantly, the Canvas ensures that your project's boundaries and strategies are defined early on, and the document is used throughout the project's timespan as a reference, guide and can equally serve as a tool to step back and reflect on if the project is still on track. The Project Design Canvas thus ensures that every project has a goal, a plan, and limitations to prevent so-called "project creep."

The purpose

What is the goal of the model?

The Project Design Canvas is used to clearly define a project's expectations and limitations before investing valuable resources and to guide the team members until the project's completion.

Beyond the download

Use this model in Axibra, not only in a slide deck

The PDF is yours to keep. But a model changes something only when it touches the work — and that is what Axibra does with it. The model becomes the structure your decisions are made in, and every outcome stays traceable back to the input it came from.

In practice

Where this model does its work

For years we applied this model by hand, in client engagements. It now runs inside Axibra.

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