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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><b>Project management simulation</b> is <a href="Simulation" title="Simulation">simulation</a> used for <a href="Project_management" title="Project management">project management</a> training and analysis.
Project management simulation is often used as <a href="Training_simulation" title="Training simulation">training simulation</a> for <a href="Project_manager" title="Project manager">project managers</a>. In other cases it is used for <a href="What-if_analysis" class="mw-redirect" title="What-if analysis">what-if analysis</a> and for supporting <a href="Decision-making" title="Decision-making">decision-making</a> in real projects.
Frequently the simulation is conducted using <a href="Software_tool" class="mw-redirect" title="Software tool">software tools</a>.
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<p>Project management simulation for training is an interactive learning activity, frequently practiced as a group exercise. The purpose of the simulation is to impart to students the competencies (i.e. knowledge, skills, and attitudes) that will ultimately improve their performance.<sup id="cite_ref-salas_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-salas-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
It confronts trainees with the situations and problems that arise in real world projects. Trainees see the consequences of the decisions they make. They can track the evolution of the project parameters: <a href="Scope_(project_management)" title="Scope (project management)">scope</a>, costs, <a href="Schedule_(project_management)" title="Schedule (project management)">schedule</a>, and quality, as well as human factors. The simulation provides an opportunity for learners to solve typical project problems, to make mistakes and analyze them.
Pedagogic goals of project management simulation can be to teach how to:
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<ul><li>determine goal and objectives of a project;</li>
<li><a href="Estimation_(project_management)" title="Estimation (project management)">estimate</a> cost;</li>
<li>plan <a href="Task_(project_management)" title="Task (project management)">tasks</a> of the project;</li>
<li>plan <a href="Resource_(project_management)" title="Resource (project management)">resources</a> in a project;</li>
<li>use project management tools;</li>
<li>control the progress of a project;</li>
<li>make <a href="Project_team" title="Project team">team</a> decisions under stress;</li>
<li>react appropriately in typical project management situations</li></ul>
<p>Different studies<sup id="cite_ref-salas_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-salas-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> suggest that using simulation-based training for training project managers is superior to other methods.
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<p>Project management simulation is used to analyze real projects. The goal of the simulation is to show the user the different possible outcomes of his decisions, along with the probability that each outcome will occur. The simulation helps in reducing the project risk and in choosing the best project plan.
In a typical simulation the project is first modeled into a software tool along with uncertain variables. A simulation is then run to check the different possible outcomes and their probability as a result of different inputs for the uncertain variables.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Case_study" title="Case study">Case study</a></li>
<li><a href="Project_management" title="Project management">Project management</a></li>
<li><a href="Project_manager" title="Project manager">Project manager</a></li>
<li><a href="Serious_game" title="Serious game">Serious game</a></li>
<li><a href="Simulation_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Simulation game">Simulation game</a></li>
<li><a href="Simulation" title="Simulation">Simulation</a></li>
<li><a href="Training_simulation" title="Training simulation">Training simulation</a></li>
<li><a href="Project_team_builder" title="Project team builder">Project team builder</a></li>
<li><a href="Sensitivity_analysis" title="Sensitivity analysis">Sensitivity analysis</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-salas-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-salas_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-salas_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Salas, E., Wildman, J. L., Piccolo, R. F. (2009). "Using simulation-based training to enhance management Education", Academy of Management Learning & Education, 8, 559–573.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nembhard, D., K. Yip and A. Shtub, "Comparing Competitive and Cooperative Strategies for Learning Project Management" April, 2009, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jee.org/2009/april/8.pdf"><i>International Journal of Engineering Education</i></a>, 181–192</span>
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