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Feb 20, 2024
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In this session, we're going to walk through the steps required to plan and execute your project. On the overview page, you can take a tour of the simulation. The key things to remember are the location of the project reference guide, the online help, and the orientation guide. At a high level,
you need to plan your project gets approval for execution, and then execute the project a week at a time. The project reference guide has the project charter, make sure to read that carefully. You have a target budget of fifty thousand dollars, you have eleven weeks to complete the project and
a quality goal to meet. You also have an organizational chart, the work breakdown structure, and task descriptions that list the skills you need to complete the task. The company policies are the rules of the simulation. They provide you with some guidance and what you can do for various policies like staffing, recognition, and training to mention a few. Remember the location of these policies so that you can refer to them during your simulation runs. Each of the 10 team members on your projects has a profile that includes a short bio of their last performance review and education. These profiles will help you select the best candidate team member for your project. Sim project is designed to throw challenges at you which will mimic the real-life project challenges you're about to face on an actual project. Your sim project license allows you three runs of the simulation. Each execution allows you to plan for and execute a project to the end. Once you begin a run, you'll need to finish it before you can start a new run of the simulation. The help documentation has instructions that will guide you through the simulation. First, you need to plan your project. A planning checklist is available for you for your reference. The planning checklist items include- one-resource plan, two-risk reserve plan, three-training plan, four-stakeholder plan, five-recognition budget, and six-budget approval. As you complete these you can mark them off if you hover over the checklist item some questions are highlighted in the pop-up text that helps you understand if you have completed that checklist item. For the resource plan, you're going to be looking at what skills you need to complete a specific task. You
need to ensure that a team member is assigned to that task, for example, for task number one named systems design, we need an IT, specialist, for 2 weeks or 10 days. David Lewis is our IT specialist. He's already on the project as you can see in the resource plan David Lewis is assigned
task number 1 in week 1 and week 2. For task 2, you need 3 weeks or 15 days, and you need an IT specialist and a network specialist. So, you can assign David Lewis to task 2 in weeks 3,4, and
5. To assign a network specialist, come down to the available resources and select a team member with the right skills. You can compare the profiles of Lisa and Sally, the two network specialists. Select one and add them to the project. They will start 2 weeks after we staff them. So, for the first 2 weeks, Lisa will be set to staff and then in weeks 3 through 5, Lisa is assigned to task number 2. As you assign resources to tasks, the budget is also updated. You can see that we've allocated a budget for task 1 and task 2 to complete the resource plan and assign resources to all 7 tasks for the 11 weeks. Additional items that contribute to your budget include a risk reserve plan, training plan, and recognition budget. For stakeholder interactions, each type of stakeholder, you have different options to interact with these stakeholders. You can determine the level of interactions with your stakeholders that will help you achieve your project goals. Once you've put the plan together you can go for plan approval, run your plan check to make sure that there are no errors in the check log, and request budget approval. You must have a budget plan for each budget line item to obtain plan approval. You're now ready to move on to the execution phase of the project. Under execution, the options you have are staffing, interaction
decisions, and work week. For staffing you view the resource assignments for the week you do not have you do have the option to assign overtime. You can see that Lisa is planning to join the
project in 2 weeks. You can override your planned staff assignments if you wish. Under interactions, you execute the planned interactions for the week. Even if you have the planned interactions during your planning phase, you need to schedule the interactions, or else they will not be executed. You must execute your interaction decisions every week. Your options are individual conferences, team meetings, individual and team rewards, training, and stakeholder action. Once you've made your interaction decisions for the week you move to work week begin by clicking on the start week button. Every week you'll be presented with real-life project scenarios which you'll have to navigate. Your response to the scenarios will determine the future
course of your project execution. After you complete your run for the week you have access to a host of reports to help you track the progress of your project. You then proceed to the next week and repeat the process for the subsequent weeks. Each screen has an info panel that provides additional guidance for you. Remember you have the execution checklist to guide you through the project implementation. To conclude, use the planning and implementation checklists to guide you through the simulation.
Good luck with the sim project!
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