Simulations

In this simulation, you've been named the project leader for an exciting new project—the development of a knowledge sharing database for your company, Four Corners BioPharma, Inc. The project will involve establishing processes for storing and sharing knowledge in your multinational corporation and developing the 4CShare software itself.

Over the course of the project, you'll make decisions about the project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk. As you make these decisions, an adaptive scoreboard will reflect the impact of your choices on project success. The goal in the simulation is to optimize positive scores across the following project management factors (as identified by the PMI® 2011 role delineation study):

1. Initiating the Project
2. Planning the Project
3. Executing the Project
4. Monitoring and Controlling the Project
5. Closing the Project
6. Cross-cutting Skills

Learning Outcomes

This simulation is meant to sharpen your understanding of key project management skills. Those skills include:

1. Leading a project team
2. Balancing competing interests, such as project scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources, risk, communications, and procurement considerations throughout every project phase
3. Dealing with controversial decisions and the potential for negative team or customer outcomes
4. Analyzing schedule, budget, and quality data and using that information to make educated decisions
5. Addressing issues related to project procurement

PDUs/Contact Hours: 10   |   CEUs: 1

Estimated time to complete: 10 hours

Target Audience: This simulation is designed for adult learners with some project management experience.

Prerequisites: Learners should have some experience in project management

Level: Intermediate                                        Duration: 180 days                                Cost: $359

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Through this simulation, the learner will play the role of a project manager on a highway construction project in the small city of Allerton. This project is considered to be a "major project" by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), which means it has a budget of $500 million or more.

Learners will be asked to make a series of decisions during the simulation. Each decision will impact the project in different ways. The goal in the simulation is to optimize positive scores across the following project management factors (as identified by the PMI® 2011 role delineation study):

1. Initiating the Project
2. Planning the Project
3. Executing the Project
4. Monitoring and Controlling the Project
5. Closing the Project
6. Cross-cutting Skills

This simulation is meant to sharpen your understanding of key project management skills. Those skills include:

1. Leading a project team
2. Balancing competing interests, such as project scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources, risk, communications, and procurement considerations throughout every project phase
3. Dealing with controversial decisions and the potential for negative team or customer outcomes
4. Analyzing schedule, budget, and quality data and using that information to make educated decisions
5. Addressing issues related to project procurement

PDUs/Contact Hours: 10   |   CEUs: 1

Target Audience: This simulation is designed for adult learners with some project management experience.

Level: Intermediate

Estimated time to complete: 10 hours                                        

Cost: $359

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Through this simulation, the learner will play the role of a project manager on a new product development project at HealthMax Software. The goal of the project is to develop HealthRecords, a new medical records software system. For HealthMax, a small company, the success of this project has become vital to its long-term viability. It is now March, and the plan is to have three satisfied early-adopter customers and a product that is ready to launch at a major trade show in June of next year. The schedule is tight, and the budget for the project has been set with no possibility of an increase.

You will be asked to make a series of decisions during the simulation, and each decision will impact the project in different ways. Your goal in the simulation is to optimize positive scores across the following project management factors:

1. Project Integration Management
2. Scope Management
3. Quality Management
4. Schedule/Time Management
5. Budget/Cost Management
6. Human Resources Management
7. Risk Management
8. Communications Management
9. Procurement Management

This simulation is meant to sharpen your understanding of key project management skills. Those skills include:

1. Leading a project team
2. Balancing competing interests, such as project scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources, risk, communications, and procurement considerations
3. Dealing with controversial decisions and the potential for negative team or customer outcomes
4. Analyzing schedule, budget, and quality data and using that information to make educated decisions
5. Addressing issues related to project procurement
6. Facing challenges related to project planning, project execution, and project monitoring and control

PDUs/Contact Hours: 10   |   CEUs: 1

Target Audience: This simulation is designed for adult learners with some project management experience.

Level: Intermediate

Estimated time to complete: 10 hours                                        

Cost: $359

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Leading the Courtney Museum is a simulation designed to challenge and engage participants while exploring key real-world leadership issues confronted by Nonprofit managers.

The learner assumes the role of executive director of the troubled Courtney Museum, and deals with a series of personnel, marketing, financial, and board/community relations issues.

As the learner makes tough decisions, an adaptive scoreboard reflects the impact of those choices on the Museum's prospects. Commentary from experienced Nonprofit leaders provides qualitative context and explores the consequences of choosing different paths for reviving the Museum.

This course is self-paced and online. You will have access to this course for 60 days.

CFRE Credits: 10   |   CEUs: 1

Note: Receive 10 CFRE points for successful completion of this simulation.

Target Audience: This course is designed for Nonprofit managers interested in enhancing their leadership skills.

Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Prerequisites: Learners should have experience in Nonprofit management.

Estimated time to complete: 10 hours of online course work

Duration: 180 days

Cost: $399

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Throughout this simulation, you will play the role of the new chief executive officer of Coastal Industries, a fictional manufacturer of industrial transformers. During the simulation, you will be asked to make a series of decisions as Coastal Industries adopts sustainable management practices. These decisions will involve the company's operations, its standing in the community, and its relations with local government and state and federal regulators. Each of your decisions will affect Coastal Industries in different ways. Your goal in the simulation is to optimize positive scores across the following leadership factors:

You will be asked to make a series of decisions during the simulation, and each decision will impact the project in different ways. Your goal in the simulation is to optimize positive scores across the following project management factors:

1. Leadership Performance
2. Board Support
3. Employee Relations
4. Social Responsibility
5. Regulatory Compliance
6. Environmental Practices
7. Financial Performance

This simulation is meant to sharpen your understanding of the key leadership skills necessary for effective sustainable management. Those skills include:

1. Taking charge as a new leader
2. Balancing competing concerns, such as management/employee preferences, community interests, and financial needs
3. Dealing with controversial decisions and the potential for negative responses both internally and externally
4. Analyzing financial data and using that information to make educated decisions
5. Managing organizational change
6. Understanding the relationship between corporate responsibility and the community
7. Assessing sustainability practices and measuring their organizational and financial impacts
8. Finding compromises that meet short and long-term financial objectives

CEUs: 1

Target Audience: This simulation is designed for adult learners with some knowledge of sustainable management practices.

Level/Prerequisites: Introductory/No Prerequisites

Estimated time to complete: 10 hours

Cost: $399

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