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SimProject
SimProject is a project simulation used by many academic institutions around the world as part of their project management curriculum. At the core of SimProject is a virtual project called the Alliance Prototype Project, which has seven tasks and ten potential team members. SimProject can be given as standalone home work for students (individual or teams), or utilized as a classroom activity with teams of students sharing the role of project manager.

In SimProject, students read about the virtual company, virtual project and virtual people available to work on the project, and then, individually or collectively, play the role of the project manager. Acting as the project manager the student(s):


 * Plan the project (resources and budget) and make typical project decisions each week (staff assignments, meetings, education, etc.).
 * Run the project a week at a time, analyzing their results each week, referring to their weekly reports, and making their decisions for the next week.

As they run each week they are presented with communications from people within the company, team members, or other project stakeholders. They have a choice on how to respond to these communications and all their decisions impact how their project progresses in a non-prescriptive way.

SimProject is a real-life project simulation. In planning and running SimProject, students develop skills directly applicable to managing projects in their organizations. Planning and running SimProject provides skill development in all Knowledge Areas except procurement. As a result of using SimProject as part of the class, students:


 * Develop a weekly human resource plan by picking specific resources based on task-skill match and performance profile characteristics
 * Complete a training plan for resources who need training on the project
 * Complete a stakeholder interaction plan for the project manager to communicate and interact with the various stakeholders on the project
 * Complete a risk plan (identify, assess and develop action plans)
 * Complete a recognition budget (how will team members and the team be recognized for achievement on the project)
 * Manage and meet the project scope and quality requirements within time and cost goals (understand the relationships and trade-offs between scope, quality, time, and cost)
 * Make decisions each week in communicating with team members (individually and as a team) and stakeholders

All of these decisions dynamically drive the direction of the project and the results the students receive. They become more skilled as a project manager using current data and project management tools to help them understand and manage their projects.

History
The origins of SimProject started in the early 1990's when Ed Tilford Sr. with help from Jesse Freese began to model different project dynamics using the I-Think system modeling tool. Several initial versions were completed allowing users to control various inputs and then watch the impact on the resulting cost and schedule.