“Our recent Gartner Research Circle survey asked clients about project failures. No respondent chose “technical skills” as the cause of IT project failure. What this illustrates is that IT practitioners know that non-technical skills are always a factor in project success.”
Mike Rollings, VP of Gartner Research, 2013
Projects fail. Trained Project Managers fail. Do you ever wonder why?
Projects fail mostly because project manager trainings are often exam centered, teams overlook risks, and organizations focus on putting frameworks in place without internalizing behaviors or implementing learning cycles to avoid repeating errors.
The Challenge of Egypt is a fun and dynamic simulation that focuses on practical ways to apply Project Management best practices and learn the essence of Prince2®, PMI®, and PMBOK®. GamingWorks has designed the challenge to help trainees discern and prioritize business case realization, stay customer-focused, and develop communication and team competencies.
The team will be given a simulation scenario/challenge setup in ancient Egypt. Where the Pharaoh asked the leader of the steering group to build a Pyramid. The steering group assigns a Project Leader and a project team to execute this very large and critical project. The team has to deal with all kinds of events and setbacks to keep the project within scope, quality, budget and Time. This requires applying best practice project management processes and procedures.
The team will execute 3 project stages. In each stage they will have to execute the work and deal with all kinds of realistic issues such as events, incidents, change requests etc. Between the stages, the team will reflect on how well the project is going. How effective are their project management practices and will identify and agree on improvements. After implementing these improvements, the team will start the next stage.
At the end of the project the team will execute a lessons learned session to capture all learning outcomes and define a take-away-action-plan.