Activities for teaching project management

 

Detective Game - what killed the project: Deductive tabletop game with the objective to monitor and control a software project using Earned Value Management.
         Process Group:        Monitoring & control
         Knowledge Area:      Cost and Time
         Learning Objective:   On the cognitive level to reinforce concepts and to teach the
                                        competency to apply knowledge on earned value management.
         Material:  
                 Description
                                         Complete set of material
                                           






Earned Value Management Board Game: Board game with the objective to monitor and control a software project using Earned Value Management.
         Process Group:        Monitoring & control
         Knowledge Area:      Cost and Time
         Learning Objective:   On the cognitive level to reinforce concepts and to
                                        teach the competency to apply knowledge on earned
                                        value management.
         Material:       
            Description
                                        Slides for the explanation of the game
                                         Instruction sheet
                                         Game board
                                         Document templates
                                          Money
                                          Human resource cards
                                          Risk cards




GRESSE VON WANGENHEIM, C.; SAVI, R.; BORGATTO, A.; DELIVER! - An Educational Game for Teaching Earned Value Management in Computing Courses. Information and Software Technology, Elsevier, pre-print.





Leadership exercise: Dealing with difficult people
Group exercise with the illustrate difficulties encountered with difficult people during project execution.

         Process Group:         Execution
         Knowledge Area:       Human Resource
         Learning Objective:    The reinforcement of human resource management concepts
                                         on the cognitive levels of remembering, understanding and
                                         application and on the affective level, the learning to receive and
                                         respond to phenomena.
         Material:       
             Description
                                         
Cards

 

Applying SCRUM: Welcome to SCRUMIA
Group exercise with the purpose to plan and execute a sprint of a hypothetical project applying SCRUM as part of a project management course.

         Process Group:        Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Control
         Knowledge Area:      Scope and Time
         Learning Objective:   Reinforce concepts and to teach the competency to apply the
                                        knowledge on project management using SCRUM covering the
                                        cognitive levels remembering, understanding and application.
         Material:   
                Description
                                         Detailed process description
                                        
Slides for the explanation of the activity
                                         Template for the task board and burnout graph
                                         User story cards






Paper tower competition: Group exercise with the objective to monitor a project for the construction of a paper tower using Earned Value Management.
         Process Group:        Monitoring & control
         Knowledge Area:      Cost and Time
         Learning Objective:   On the cognitive level to reinforce concepts and to teach the
                                        competency to apply knowledge on earned value management.
         Material:
                   Description
                                        Slides for explanation and execution
                                         Document templates

                                                 




 

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