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Project Management Simulation VX-1 Software Workshop

Welcome to the world of VX-1. You, the project manager, will work out of your new office. It's a very convenient place. As you move your mouse around, you can see many difference items. Click on individual objects to access them. For example, when you move your mouse over the charts hanging on the wall, you can click to access the charts and graphs available for you to use. These charts include a tracking Gantt chart, a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) chart and various graphs for measurements and comparisons of all the important elements of your project. 

The computer on your desk sends and receives your email. Don't forget to use it. It is a valuable means for communicating and doesn't take much time. Imagine “walking” into your office through your computer and interacting with all the elements of managing a project. You can live events and participate in them as they unfold. You can direct them, change them or just watch them unfold. You determine your own goals. You can plan a virtual project, talk with virtual people who respond to your actions, handle a virtual budget, and struggle with natural events and more. Reality is in your control. You can “see” all the consequences of your decisions, actions and reactions. You go beyond the static representations of the printed word into the dynamic simulations of the computer-generated world.

 What will the Participant do?

• Manage a realistic, project with costs, quality, timing, and resource constraints,

• Use modern tools & techniques for decision making, monitoring, budgeting and scheduling,

• Face & learn to resolve all facets of project management and progress in response to project leader decisions, customer changes and involvement plus management

• intervention,

• Deal with realistic and unanticipated behavior by team members,

• Solve problems caused by personnel and equipment unavailability or failure,

• Acquire quality management skills.

Audience: Project managers, team members, functional managers, and stakeholders that are a part of the planning, execution and controlling phases of a project.

Program Length 3-5 days    Pre-work Approximately two hours1

Workshop Design Philosophy

Today individuals and organizations depend not only on their ability to learn new information but also how to think, question, explore, create and continually grow. Our business environment has demanded changes. We are now a learning culture as never before in history. Consequently, the training goals of today need to ignite people’s total capacity for thinking, problem solving, innovating and learning. Management gurus Peter Senge and Fred Kofman say that management may be one of the few professions in which members attempt to achieve competence without formalized practice and suggest that managers need to have 'virtual learning spaces' that would enable them to gain learning experiences in a low-risk environment. This means training with a variety of methods. Simulation is one such method.

 Data shows that computer-based training is cost effective: 30% more learning in 40% less time at 30% less cost. Our project management simulation software will provide the user with faster learning and better retention, enhance the user’s problem solving capability and be more cost effective. Participants keep the VX-1 software and continue learning from their desktop.

PMI Knowledge Areas and Processes Discussed

Quotes From Users:

• "I saw the characters as real."

• "I especially liked the ability to implement immediately – no waiting."

• "The goodness of the tool "Inspires"."

•  "I like the idea that students can take it home with them. The intense involvement grabs your attention and is very addictive."

• "The realization of consequences or benefits was great."

• "I liked the elements of discovery."

• "It (VX-1) was fabulous."

•  "I liked the sharing of experiences."

• "I liked the "hands-on" that I had to do with the staff planning."

• "I liked practicing the interpersonal skills."

• " It was very challenging to balance the schedule, the budget and the quality."

• " Nothing beats experience."

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