Brief Description
Instruction for simulation assignments vary from case to case. Students will pay special attention to information accompanying the simulation paper and use appropriately.
Your professor will build a library in Harvard Business Publishing of the course material, use it to build a course pack and distribute this to you. When activating the course pack, the professor will determine the payment mode and communicate this to you. The activation process will produce a unique course pack link that will be emailed to students or posted to gain access and for purchase of the simulation. It is important to purchase the simulation prior to the beginning of class as the simulation begins at the start of week 3.
*The simulations is to be purchased by each student and will be done individually.
Details of simulation can be purchased from Harvard Business Publishing link:
Austin, R. D. (2013). Project management simulation: Scope, resources, schedule V2. Product #: 4700-HTM-ENG. Harvard Business Publishing. https://hbsp.harvard.edu/import/846533
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Description
This session should probably be shorter than the first session, because students are now already familiar with the simulations and won’t be surprised by the unexpected events in the scenario. It’s best to allow time to play each scenario, B, C and F, one or two times. These scenarios will be more challenging for students than scenario A, so students may want to play longer, in order to try to master the new challenge.
The instructor has some control over how surprised students are likely to be by the staff, crises in Scenario B and the competitor announcements in Scenario C, and the many sources of uncertainty in Scenario F. For example, situation the simulation within a course topic explicitly called something like “Managing Risk and Uncertainty” can obviously forewarn the students. Even without complete surprise, the simulation will be effective. The situation in the simulation will not be much different than the situation facing a real project manager. He or she knows to expect something unexpected but doesn’t know what it might be.
Before beginning, suggest some questions that guide student thinking in the direction of managing risk and uncertainty but that do give away too much.
Submission Instructions
After playing the simulation, students will generate a short debrief summary that responds the following assignment questions and provide screenshot that shows that you played the simulation.
What’s different about the project context in this scenario?
In this scenario, how have causal relationships been affected or changed? Why have they changed?
What strategies did you use to deal with this scenario? What worked? What didn’t? Were you able to complete the project successfully?
Having dealt now with different project scenarios, how would you revise your project management advice? If so, how?
