The Challenge of Egypt
the workshop
This Business Simulation game takes a team of 12 participants back to the times of ancient Egypt. The team needs to create a project organization in order to build the famous Pyramid of Cheops. During this one day session the team will be confronted with many of the challenges faced by the ancient Egyptians; Nile flooding, wars, the changing desires of the pharao. The team's objective is to fulfil their project task within time, scope, budget and quality.
learning Objectives
- Learn more about a project management organization, roles, tasks, authorities and responsibilities
- Learn more about project management principles
- Learn more about project manager skills and competences
- Learn more about controlling projects using project management methods and instruments
- Learn about the behavior of various project stakeholders
- Learn about the success and fail factors in managing projects
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Project Managers who want to improve their personal competences
- Project team members and customers who participate in projects and need to learn more about project management principles
- Students who wants to learn more about project management skills, methods, principles
ROLES
- Project Board roles, responsible for the project result
- Project Manager, responsible for managing and controlling the project
- Project Assurance, ensure the quality of the project and the project results
- Project Support, responsible for the administration of the project
- Team managers, responsible for the realisation of the project. Quarry manager, Transportation manager and Construction manager.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
In this workshop participants will enact the roles of a project management organization. The assignment is to build the famous Pyramid of Cheops. The project manager receives the project assignment during a meeting with the project board. The project manager will then initiate a project start-up and inform the team of their assignment. The project then begins. Stones must be produced, transported and built and risks and project events must be managed. The project manager must deliver the project on time, within budget and meeting the quality demands of the Pharao.
The workshop consists of 4 rounds. In each round the team undergoes the following steps:
Designing or improving their process, applying their process, reflecting and reporting. During the workshop the team will encounter all relevant project management issues such as how to work with work packages, how to control a project, how to communicate within the project team and towards the project board, how a project board needs to control a project and how to deal with a scope change.
ANTICIPATED RESULTS
Depending upon the learning objectives of the participants, during this training the following learning objectives will be achieved:
- Participants will have a better understanding of how a project management method can improve the results of projects.
- Participants will have a better understanding of the project management roles, tasks, responsibilities and authorities.
- Participants will have a better understanding of how to design, implement, analyse, audit and improve processes aimed at improving project results.
- Participants will learn how to co-operate and how to improve working processes by designing and implementing as a team.
- Participants will learn the importance of leadership, accountability, responsibility and ownership within projects to ensure results are achieved.
- Participants will learn how to control projects using quality, scope, budget and time as control mechanisms.
- Participants will end up with a list of improvement needs relating to their own project/working environment.
