TOPMeeting - a CMMI Business Sim
THE WORKSHOP:
You are employed by the company TOPMeeting. This company hires conference and meeting facilities. You work within the project organization. The project sponsor who is the owner of the company has an ambitious plan to build 3 new business objects aimed at increasing the revenue of the company. He has assigned the task and the designs to the Steering group and delegated the management and control of the project to the them. The team determines the requirements and translates these into a project plan, work plans and monitoring mechanisms. The project is then executed. Various unforeseen events will put the project under pressure; the project organization will need to effectively respond to ensure that the revenue targets are achieved.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Experience working in a project organization that must help realize business goals.
- To learn and experience the 7 CMM-I processes relating to CMM-I level 2.
- To recognize your own role in a project organization and the behavior required.
- Experience how to analyze and improve project performance.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
- Project managers
- Project employees
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP:
The following processes will be experienced during the simulation:
- Requirement Management
- Project Planning
- Project Monitoring and Control
- Supplier Agreement Management
- Measurement and Analysis
- Process and Product Quality Assurance
- Configuration Management
The following roles will be assigned during the simulation:
- Steering group (containing the Business Executive and Senior User)
- Projectmanager
- Architect
- Quality manager
- Project Support
- Work foreman
- Supplier (external party)
The number of participant scan vary between 8-10.
Program
The program is 1 full day from 9.00 – 17.00.
The participants in this simulation play a specific project role throughout the day. The project lasts 4 years. An introduction is given by the simulation facilitator after which participants have time to study their role and the material they will be using.
The team receives time to prepare for the project assignment (Roles, planning, designing graphs and reporting instruments), following this the project assignment must be carried out and the project clock is started.
The external supplier will deliver stones. The Work Foreman(men) will build the business objects. The team will be confronted with events that must be dealt with. The project manager will lead the project execution, the quality manager ensure the quality is both the business objects and the overall process is managed, project support facilitates the team with graphs and actual facts on status and progress. The architect will assess the feasibility of the requirements from the project sponsor and will make designs to support the required functionality of the objects. The steering group will ensure that the requirements of the sponsor are met, that the objects are fit for use and fit for purpose and that the revenue targets are realized on time, for each of the objects.
Following each simulation round the team receives time to optimize their project processes to ensure that results will be achieved. The simulation facilitator will use the 7 CMM-I processes during the reflection.
