What is the current situation?
Still a large percentage of Projects fail to realize the required results. Some reports suggest between 70 – 80%, some put it alarmingly higher! All this despite the enormous investment in Project Management training such as PMI or Prince2. This is generally not because of the lack of education or theory, but lack of understanding of how to translate theory into practice, or the lack of the right behaviors within the project team.
Why do projects continually fail? What are some of the key reasons? Our global surveys reveal top issues being: ‘the sponsor role in governing the project’, ‘end-user engagement and involvement’, ‘poor requirements specification and planning’, ‘poor project management discipline, roles and management of scope changes’, ‘lack of project leadership and so skills’.
An additional strain is put on Project management by the drive towards ‘Agile’ practices, giving rise to Agile Project management and Prince2 Agile.
This business simulation on can be used to help address the common failures mentioned above, or it can be used to teach people more about Agile project management disciplines.
About the simulation
The scenario takes place 4000 years ago in ancient Egypt. Zoser’s pyramid has just been completed; work on the Cheops pyramid has yet to be started. Egypt was one of the most important civilizations of that time, and structures were being built alongside the Nile that would continue to astonish people for millennia to come. How could the Egyptians do this?
This cannot be done without proper project management. How are you going to excavate, transport and construct millions of stones and ensure that tens of thousands of people work as efficiently as possible? Obviously, that didn’t just happen all by itself. Furthermore, the process was continually subject to the changing demands of the Pharaoh, the weather, diseases, wars etc. Project Management practices, skills and instruments were required to deal with all of these issues.
The mighty Pharaoh is fighting wars to protect his country. There is a risk he could be fatally wounded at any moment. Just like every Pharaoh he wants to secure his afterlife, and to take his treasures and weapons with him.
His good friend, the priest, will take care of the Pharaoh’s requirements and will ensure that a project is set up to construct this magnificent pyramid close to the river Nile.
Teams of administrators and quality experts will support the project and guarantee that the Pyramid will secure the Pharaoh’s afterlife. The best project manager in the country will make it all happen.
Do you dare to take the challenge?
This one day interactive project management workshop lets participants experience how to apply Project Management theory in a realistic challenging environment.
Agenda:
Start End 09:00 09:30 Introduction 09:30 10:50 Requirements & Design Risk Management Project Plan Detailed Planning 10:50 11:00 Break 11:00 11:15 Project Kick Off 11:15 11:45 Round 1 11:45 12:15 Evaluate Round 1 12:15 13:15 Lunch 13:15 13:45 Prepare for Round 2 13:45 14:45 Evaluate Round 2 14:45 15:00 Prepare for Round 3 15:00 15:15 Break 15:15 15:45 Round 3 15:45 16:30 Closure of the day with lesson learnt