Visual map
258 figures that explain project management.
Every figure on this site in one place: flows, comparisons, timelines and charts. Each one is drawn from the text of the article it belongs to, so you can skim the picture first and open the article when it matches your problem. Pick a topic.
Measure what matters
Pick the few numbers that change decisions, track real progress and build dashboards that tell the truth.
- Project Cost Management: Budget, Baseline and Contingency
- Data-Driven Project Management: Measure What Moves the Result
- Earned Value in Plain English: Know If a Project Is Really on Track
- and 1 more
Work with the people who matter
Map stakeholders, keep a sponsor engaged and make sure everyone knows what is happening.
- Stakeholder Mapping: Who Can Make or Break Your Project
- How to Keep an Executive Sponsor Engaged (Without Nagging)
See trouble coming
Risk registers, contract calendars and the habits that protect budget, schedule and relationships.
- Project Risk Management in Plain English: Qualitative vs. Quantitative, and Which One You Need
- Contract Management Best Practices for Small Businesses: The Five Clauses, a Calendar and a Health Check
- Risk Management for Small Business: A Risk Register That Actually Works
- and 1 more
Make change stick
The people side of projects: why good work goes unused, and how to plan communication that gets read.
- Change Management: Why Good Projects Fail at the People Part
- The Project Communication Plan People Actually Read
Deliver with just enough structure
Control scope, choose the right method, plan capacity and close projects so the lessons are used.
- Project Schedule Management: From Task List to Baseline
- PMBOK Step by Step, Part 4: How Long and How Much? The Schedule and Cost Baselines
- The Project Kickoff Meeting: A 60-Minute Agenda That Works
- and 18 more
Prove the result
A project is done when the benefit shows up. How to define it, measure it and own it.
- Project Focus, Part 4: The Weekly Rhythm: A 30-Minute Meeting That Runs the Business
- Process Teardown, Part 1: The New Inquiry, from "Contact Us" to a First Answer
- Project Focus, Part 3: Your First Scoreboard: Three Numbers That Matter
- and 4 more
Playbooks by industry
How project thinking applies to restaurants, clinics, startups, schools, real estate, staffing and tech.
- A One-Page AI Policy for Small Businesses: Nine Lines Your Team Will Read
- Restaurant Opening Checklist: Six Lists, One Calendar, Worked Backward from Opening Day
- How to Get Your First Consulting Clients: A 30-Day Plan
- and 47 more
News and reports
Recent events read as a project manager would read them: public numbers drawn as figures, always with the source.
- Salt Lake County's $128 million recreation bond: what a project manager sees
- US construction spending fell 1.9% in September: what to read before you react
- Two jobs reports, two stories: why the definition behind a number matters
- and 8 more
How to read it
Three notes before you start.
Built from the text
A figure only shows numbers and ideas that are in the article it comes from. Where an example is made up, the caption says it is illustrative.
Plain text, any screen
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The article has the rest
A figure is a summary. Under each one there is a link to the guide or the news post with the reasoning, the examples and the tool.
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