PPM Project Phoenix – a Project Management Business Game

Who is this course for

Anyone who works in a project management role, whether an experienced veteran or a novice project support officer.

Purpose of the course

Delegates taking part in Project Phoenix Business Game take on the roles of a project management team tasked with selecting and implementing an initiative to reverse the dwindling trade of the theme park business Tolerant Sow.

Delegates will experience the following parts of the project lifecycle: Requirements Management, Resource Scheduling, Project Implementation and Post Project Review.

They will also have the option of being exposed to one additional module from Developing a Business Case, Stakeholder Analysis, or Risk Management.

Alternatively, if taken as a two day course all modules can be experienced.

You will learn how to

• Work as a team to ensure time, cost and quality are kept within tolerance.


• Communicate effectively both with your team and with key stakeholders.


• Understand the importance of requirements gathering.


• Practice scheduling techniques such as developing a Work Break Down Structure and Resource Smoothing.


• Monitor and communicate key information about the performance of your project.


• Record pertinent lessons learned to help ensure the success of future projects.

 

Benefits for you as an individual

For those with prior experience of projects this simulation will allow you to fine tune your skills under the watchful eyes of one of our facilitators. For those new to Projects this course will give you a chance to learn the essentials in a hands-on format.

Benefits for your organisation

Project Phoenix can be geared toward companies operating PRINCE2®, APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ), previously known as APMP or in house methodologies and, as such, create a genuine testing and training ground for your project management team.