Project management simulation - advanced level

Project Management Simulation is an excellent intensive and interactive group learning opportunity. The simulation aims to use the different competences of the participants (e.g. subject knowledge, skills and attitudes) in a playful way to show how both individual and group performance can be improved by developing these competences.

Simulation provides participants with the opportunity to explore, analyse, understand and solve typical project problems. A major advantage of project management simulation is that it confronts participants with real-life project situations and problems in a playful way, giving them the opportunity to experience the consequences of their decisions in real time. During the simulation, participants can follow the evolution of the project and the changes in the project parameters: scope, cost, schedule, quality and human factor.

The simulation can be started with a minimum team of 8 people.

The project management simulation gives participants the opportunity to experience how it should be done:

• define the purpose and scope of the project,
• estimate the costs,
• plan the project tasks,
• estimate the project costs, estimate the project tasks, assign resources to the plan,
• use project management tools,
• monitor the progress of the project,
• react appropriately in typical project management situations.

In the advanced level simulation, participants will perform a playful, creative and fun, yet "bloody serious" LEAN exercise, where they will have to meet a specific goal they have identified, with limited resources, while experiencing the typical risks of a serious process management project. This is done by having the participants, with the help of a trainer, "step out of the film" for very short periods of time and analyse what has happened and the performance from an editing room, director's perspective, thus ensuring that experiential learning is tasted and, due to the short time available, implemented in one or other of the competency areas.

Note: No prior LEAN knowledge or experience is required for the simulation.