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Review the description of the two simulation options in the Module 8 folder and complete the option that aligns with the Portfolio Project option you selected and have been working on.
The project management simulation assignment consists of two parts.
Part 1: The Simulation Experience
Run the simulation, trying various what-if assessments to obtain a better score and complete the designated scenario. In doing so, you will benefit from running the sessions using different options and trying different action items to experience various project challenges. After completing the simulation session for the designated scenario, capture a screen image of the confirmation page showing your total score for the scenario.
For Option #1: The simulation experience comprises Scenario A; or,
Simulation Link:
Project Management Simulation: Scope, Resources, Schedule V2 (Links to an external site.)
(Product #: 4700-HTM-ENG)
Part 2: Essay
After completing the simulation, write an essay that addresses the following elements based on the simulation scenario that you performed. (This part is common to both project and assignment options.)
- Present an overview of the simulation scenario.
- Explain the intent of the simulation scenario.
- Relate at least three PMBOK® Guide standards or practices applied in the simulation scenario.
- Describe your lessons learned based on the what-if assessments. Explain how the methods applied to audit and terminate projects are used to capture lessons learned.
- Describe how the simulation experience can be used to enter (or advance) your career as a project manager.
- Describe how proficiency in the use of a project management systems as demonstrated in the PMS Resource Center can be applied to enter (or advance) your career as a project manager.
Additional Instructions
Properly organize your writing by including the following:
- Cover page
- Introduction
- Body of your work in response to the assignment’s key elements, with headings and subheadings
- Conclusion
- List of references
- Appendices—containing captured screen image of the confirmation page showing your total simulation score for each scenario performed.
The introduction through conclusion sections of your essay should be approximately 4-5 pages in length. Support your assignment with a minimum of three scholarly references. The CSU-Global library is a good place to locate these sources. The written section should follow the
CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.)
standards. Consult the
Sample Paper (Links to an external site.)
template for more information on how to organize the paper and review the rubric for specific grading criteria.
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT SIMULATION
PJM 500 – Project Management
Colorado State University – Global Campus
The project management simulation primarily refers to a project facilitated by Sr. Project Managers at Delphi Printers
&
Peripherals. There is requirement
for
the Project Manager to build up a more current
and
imaginative printer that would be productive to be utilized by the clients. This task is exceptionally serious as its probable that there is additionally a serious organization which likewise has plans of planning a similar venture which implies that there ought to be proficiency to pull
in
more clients in the market as this implies the organization needs to increase an upper hand over yonder contenders. This venture then again should be savvy, acceptable determination that would be solid, and furthermore should be finished in the littlest time conceivable. (
Fundin,
et al 2008).
Management needs to put more accentuation and furthermore screen the venture director as this would improve the advance and furthermore keep the task group on toes. This can be best performed through scoring. The administration principle point is deciding whether at all the item being referred to is extremely serious and would be effective for the organization and furthermore decide the exactness of the undertaking and in the event that they can have the option to get the anticipated score. For the Project Manager to get the anticipated score, he ought to have the option to conveyance this item on an opportune premise as the calendar should be come together with the way that week after week plan should be met. Another scoring that would is fundamental is deciding whether the venture can accomplish the predetermined spending that had been before dispensed (Heagney 2012).
This may represent an issue in its valuation as its occasionally hard to get similar costs because of incessant variety in the costs of the various supplies. Another perspective that was estimated was the capacity of the project manager to keep up the representatives’ spirit which among others includes giving the worker’s modest time in the undertaking length and furthermore wiping out any extra time as this would just prompt extra costs which would temper with the predefined spending plan (Fundin, et al. 2018).
Intent of Simulation
The main idea behind simulation is determining if the project manager can be able to complete the project within the specified duration, use the provided resources and coming up with the best product that would definitely achieve maximum customer satisfaction. This is also aimed at determining the chance of the project being completed with limited complication arising as much as this cannot be fully avoided as they can arise at any time of the project duration. This project can be a determinant if the project manager can still be given other projects to handle which means that it would be very important for the project manager to take into consideration the actions that he may take as this may be a determinant in the future projects (Heagney, 2012)
As a project manager, it’s imperative to satisfy the desires of the administration with regard to the organization as this would have a huge effect on the open organization picture as this would influence the quantity of clients that the organization would have and furthermore the future potential clients that would almost certainly be keen on joining the organization. This is so as the clients are significantly intrigued by the degree of fulfillment they get as the degree of unwavering quality issues a ton with regards to serving clients (Fundin, et al. 2018).
Lesson and Practices Applied in Simulation
As a project manager, there are numerous odds of having diverse desire and encounters with regards to a specific task. There are a few exercises that can be gained from this task which can be useful in future ventures and this incorporates adaptability, deciding the sort of items that ought to be browsed, attitudes and energy of members, and good facilitation of the profited assets. Adaptability being a significant perspective in any undertaking as this demonstrates the capacity to any forthcoming changes in a venture. This can be seen from the utilization of the through and through strategy in assessing whether the allotted time was right. In the occasion when the project manager understood that he had 20 weeks he changed to bottom up method. This breakdown as indicated by valuation was simpler which caused the breakdown of the structure to be extremely basic and which to can be handled with ease (Kerzner, 2017).
Another extremely advantageous lesson was deciding the item which should be picked. Having been given a few alternatives from which to browse, the project manager needed to figure out which of the items to utilize while mulling over the cost of every one of the choices and which would simultaneously meet the set objectives. Utilization of the scoring model made it even less expensive and spared a great deal of time. This was useful as the project manager thought that it was anything but difficult to achieve the set objective given as this was simultaneously scored by the significance lastly concocted the best structure which acclimatized all the prerequisites required (Heagney, 2012).
Valuation for colleagues is additionally something worth being thankful for that can be absorbed in different ventures as well. Associates raised their voices as they requested a decent workplace and there was a gathering which assisted with deciding the info that could be consolidated in order to improve the work environment for them. They worked normal span in seven days with certain breaks which helped them to revive themselves. This improved worker’s confidence which made it conceivable to oversee them (Kerzner, 2017)
Using all resources effectively was also a very important lesson. The project manager began with less laborers in order to set up everything before initiating the task. This included broad re-appropriating as the project manager expanded the quantity of workers with time. To remain inside the spending plan, the project manager put into thought the triple-imperative; cost, degree, and calendar while keeping the quality flawless. The project manager consolidated triple requirement technique which helped in keeping the laborers inside the limits to accomplish focused on objectives (Kerzner, 2017).
Simulation Experience: Project Manager Career
The reproduction gives a superior experience with project management as this is actually what happens in reality. Accomplishment of this re-enactment demonstrates that one needs to have tolerance, adaptability, and ought to be dedicated. There is utilization of PMBOK control principles venture estimation techniques, choice, work breakdown structure, venture sanction and others as this are what involves effective activities. This implies one has to realize where to apply them is a significant angle. This recreation identifies with a typical real circumstance just like a project manager necessitates that one needs to settle on various choices which are probably going to influence the accomplishment of the task both emphatically and additionally adversely (Heafney, 2012).
Conclusion
The project manager needs to plan and assemble an item which would contend well in the market and during the same time meet the administration required objectives. This venture is planned for deciding if the project manager has the ability of dealing with colleagues and accomplishing the predefined objectives of the association. There are diverse PMBOK direct norms which have been fused right now as the base up technique, work breakdown structure, quality, and triple limitations with exercises, for example, adaptability, knowing the sort of item to be utilized and furthermore dealing with the accessible assets. At long last this reproduction experience can be extremely useful in the event that one might need to propel their transporter in venture the board which can likewise be viable when done severally as this would commit it simpler in adjusting the errors and furthermore setting up the project manager for a job that needs to be done (Fundin, et al. 2018).
References
Project Management Institute (PMI). (2017). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) (6th Edition). Newtown Square, PA: PMI
PublicationScope, Resources, and Schedule. Retrieved from
https://forio.com/simulate/harvard/projectmanagement/simulation/prepare
H. KERZNER; V. GHYOOT. A critical comparison of systems management and project management. South African Journal of Business Management, [s. l.], n. 2, p. 80, 1984. DOI 10.4102/sajbm.v15i2.1107. Disponível em: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.54dc76f026794cbc8ae79ade59c652c4siteeds-live. Acesso em: 30 mar. 2020.
Heagney, J. (2012). Fundamentals of project management. (4th ed./ Joseph Heagney..ed., WorkSmart series). New York: American Management Association
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Thanks for your work. Your submission contains an overview of the simulation scenario that you worked on, and you have identified the intent of the scenario. You have also properly identified three elements from the PMBOK Guide that relate to the simulation. Also, you have properly documented your lessons learned and described your experience using the simulation tool. Please note, however, you were supposed to ‘capture a screen image of the confirmation page showing your total score for the scenario”. You have not provided this screenshot so I have not graded your work yet. “1” is not your grade and is only a placeholder for my own references. Please provide the screenshot for me to be able to finalize your grade. – You could have done a better job of identifying three elements from the PMBOK Guide that relate to the simulation by dedicating a section of your work and by describing these processes in more depth. For example, you could have chosen schedule management as a practice and highlight some of the main considerations in performing the simulation from the schedule management perspective. In the corresponding section of your work, you have not cited or directed incorporated any content from the PMBOK Guide. – I recommend not to cite a reference in the conclusion section. You could have done so by using and referencing it in previous sections. Please refrain from introducing a new concept or offering a statement that has not already been presented in the material leading up to the conclusion section. The general rule is that the main body of your narrative should include all the main arguments and key statements. The conclusion, on the other hand, should summarize main points made in the main body of your writing and creatively restate the ideas already presented. The conclusion is not intended to include new ideas and key points.