Tools and Techniques
A tool is a specific, tangible item such as a template or software program, used in performing an activity to produce a product or result.
A technique is a defined systematic procedure to produce one or more outputs, which may also use one or more tools.
Browse the tools and techniques and view which processes they are used in.
All Tools and Techniques
- Active listening
- Advertising
- Affinity diagrams
- Agile release planning
- Alternatives analysis
- Analogous estimating
- Assessment of other risk parameters
- Assumption and constraint analysis
- Audits
- Autocratic decision making
- Benchmarking
- Benefit-cost ratio
- Bidder conferences
- Bottom-up estimating
- Brainstorming
- Cause-and-effect diagrams
- Change control tools
- Check sheets
- Checklists
- Claims administration
- Colocation
- Communication competence
- Communication methods
- Communication models
- Communication requirements analysis
- Communication styles assessment
- Communication technology
- Conflict management
- Constrained optimization methods
- Context diagram
- Contingent response strategies
- Control charts
- Cost aggregation
- Cost of quality
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Critical path method
- Cultural awareness
- Decision tree analysis
- Decomposition
- Dependency determination
- Design for X (DfX)
- Document analysis
- Earned value analysis
- Emotional intelligence
- Expert judgment
- Facilitation
- Feedback
- Financing
- Flowcharts
- Focus groups
- Funding limit reconciliation
- Ground rules
- Hierarchical charts
- Histograms
- Historical information review
- Individual and team assessments
- Influence diagrams
- Influencing
- Information management
- Inspection
- Internal rate of return (IRR)
- Interviews
- Iteration burndown chart
- Knowledge management
- Leadership
- Leads and lags
- Logical data model
- Make-or-buy analysis
- Market research
- Matrix diagrams
- Meeting management
- Meetings
- Mind mapping
- Motivation
- Multicriteria decision analysis
- Murder board
- Negotiation
- Net present value (NPV)
- Networking
- Nominal group technique
- Nonverbal communication
- Observation/conversation
- Organizational theory
- Parametric estimating
- Payback period
- Peer review
- Performance reviews
- Political awareness
- Pre-assignment
- Precedence diagramming method
- Present value (PV)
- Presentations
- Prioritization/ranking
- Probability and impact matrix
- Problem solving
- Process analysis
- Product analysis
- Project management information system (PMIS)
- Project reporting
- Prompt lists
- Proposal evaluation
- Prototypes
- Quality improvement methods
- Questionnaires and surveys
- Recognition and rewards
- Regression analysis
- Representations of uncertainty
- Reserve analysis
- Resource optimization
- Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
- Risk categorization
- Risk data quality assessment
- Risk probability and impact assessment
- Rolling wave planning
- Root cause analysis (RCA)
- Scatter diagrams
- Schedule compression
- Schedule network analysis
- Scoring models
- Sensitivity analysis
- Simulation
- Source selection analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
- Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
- Stakeholder mapping/representation
- Statistical sampling
- Strategies for opportunities
- Strategies for overall project risk
- Strategies for threats
- SWOT analysis
- Team building
- Technical performance analysis
- Test and inspection planning
- Testing/product evaluations
- Text-oriented formats
- Three-point estimating
- To-complete performance index (TCPI)
- Training
- Trend analysis
- Variance analysis
- Virtual teams
- Voting
- What-if scenario analysis
