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Project Management Simulation
Course Code: PDP 5151

This workshop will provide a comprehensive simulation of complex decisions typically encountered in the project environment. Using a simulation tool, you will work in small groups to plan a project, allocate resources, and then assess the impact of their decisions made during the life of the project. You will experience making tradeoffs on quality, customer satisfaction, schedule, and budget in a fun and engaging environment. You will see both the short term and long term impact of decisions and have an opportunity to reflect on your decision making process.

Who Should Attend
Project managers and project leaders will benefit from the opportunity to assess the impact of their project decisions in a realistic, but safe, project environment. Functional managers will benefit from the opportunity to apply their management skills to a project environment.

What You Will Learn
• Choose the best resources to staff your project
• Resource projects in a resource constrained environment
• Make tradeoffs between schedule, cost, and quality
• Explain and defend your decisions in a team environment
• Develop and execute recovery plans to keep your project on track
• Learn from your decisions and improve your decision-making skills over time
• Make group decisions
• Interpret project status information and assess the likely outcome of the project

How You Will Benefit
• Gain experience making decisions in a project environment
• Improve your ability to explain and defend your decisions in a group of peers
• Gain insights about project management and decision making from your peers
• See both short and long term impacts of your project decisions
• Reflect on your decisions and discover ways of improving your decision skills
• Increase your understanding and usage of project data to make informed decisions
• Improve your understanding of project status information
• Increase your ability to make positive project decisions
• Have a better understanding of the long term effects of overtime work on project success

Prerequisites
This class is suggested as the last class in the Project Management Certificate program. You must first complete the Essentials of Project Management or Managing IT Projects, the Project Risk, and Project Quality courses.

Dates / Locations

There are no current sections scheduled for this course number.
Please note that courses have been assigned new numbers beginning with the fall term.
Please check the new course number for course availability.

Fees
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Instructor
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