Thomas Lechler
One of the biggest challenges in teaching project management is to offer students practical experiences with monitoring and controlling projects. It is a core responsibility of the project manager during the implementation of a project. Currently, only very complicated and lengthy simulations are available to give students practical experiences to monitor and control projects.The project game offers a great opportunity to overcome these shortcomings.
First, it is fun for the students to play instead of running lengthy semester long simulations. Second, it is very easy to integrate the game into the course syllabus. It does not take much time to explain. The game is very intuitive.Third, the game is flexible enough to customize the set-up for specific student groups.
The experiences of the participating students were overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic. Learning by playing is a very convincing value proposition. I recommend anybody who teaches project management to consider the use of the project management game. It is easy to apply and customize and it is easy to learn to play. Students will have fun memories with their project management course.
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