1 – Prendo’s SCHOLA simulation
By: Richard Palczynski, Simon Taylor and Niall Faris from Th3rd Curve.
This simulation will provide a risk -free experience of planning and controlling a project.
Developed with Cranfield School of Management, the simulation brings to life many challenges of project management including:

• integrating the key tools of planning & control
• managing risk & balancing stakeholder interests
• project teamwork & decision-making

Who is it for?		Key outcomes		Logistics
Anyone working in project environments, including: project & program managers project controls specialists project team members project sponsors students of project management		Participants gain a number of skills and insights about: scheduling: critical path analysis, gantt charts earned value analysis and project controls budgeting & cashflow resourcing & time, cost, quality trade-offs decision-making & teamwork in a project scenario		the simulation workshop can be run with anything from 8 to 80 participants, and over a 1 to 2 day timeframe. it can be run with teams in one classroom, or separate rooms, or in online events with remote participants each team needs a computer

Why simulate?

• Makes learning more fun, efficient and memorable
• Discovering is more effective than “being told”
• Experiences are transparent: users see cause and effect
• Helps reduce the risk of making mistakes in the real world
• Provides a chance to apply theory and practise skills
• Makes skills and tools easier to transfer to the workplace
• Better than words: more effective than just talking…

 

 

Date: Tuesday 9th April

Venue: TBC (it will be close by to EVA)

Cost: £500