Project Management is a domain in which methodological approach is developing very rapidly. Project managers are required to present knowledge of the various methods of project management and apply them to the management of specific projects. It means that project managers must constantly develop their competence, mainly based on good practices from different formal methods of project management. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the possibilities of education of project managers through the use of simulation games. The article presents some good practices related to the development of managerial skills project managers using simulation games. Therefore, on the beginning of the article, author presents some examples of simulation games related to popular methods of project management. One of the simulations concerns the classical approach - RUP, second relates to the agile approach. The second part of the article includes a set of competencies of project managers and then shows how these competencies can be enhanced by participation in such simulation games. At the end author presents a set of observations and experiences based on few project simulations carried on over several years.
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Additional information
- Category
- Publikacja monograficzna
- Type
- rozdział, artykuł w książce - dziele zbiorowym /podręczniku w języku o zasięgu międzynarodowym
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2014
