Your team
Availability shifts. New hires need time. An overloaded or neglected team loses momentum.
Critical Path / Project management simulation
Practice the decisions that shape a project.
Run a consulting project. Balance the budget, your team, and a client who keeps asking for more.
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01 / A message comes in
Choose your own critical path.
What’s your plan?
02 / Spend your attention
You can’t get to everything.
Each scenario gives you a few Time Allocation Points (TAP), representing your limited capacity to act. Investigating, negotiating, and communicating all spend time. Commit to your choices and allocate it carefully: unresolved conditions carry consequences into the next scenario.
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03 / Keep the project moving
The rest of the project doesn’t pause.
Your client
Some watch the budget. Others keep expanding the scope. Each needs a different approach.
Your delivery
Costs and progress keep moving. Earlier choices shape the problems you face next.
Monitor your project performance with EVM
Earned Value Management (EVM) compares the budgeted value of completed work with planned progress and actual spending.
Schedule performance
SPI = EV ÷ PVAre you delivering value at the planned pace?
Cost performance
CPI = EV ÷ ACAre you getting the planned value for what you spend?
Forecast cost
EAC = BAC ÷ CPIWhere could the final cost land if current cost efficiency continues?
EV is the budgeted value of completed work; PV is the budgeted value of work planned by now. AC is actual cost, and BAC is the total cost budget.
An SPI or CPI of 1.0 is on plan; below 1.0 signals slower progress or higher cost. Explore earned value and CPI or forecasting the cost to finish.
04 / Beyond a test
The answer changes the next question.
Each choice opens new options, with cascading effects through the entire project simulation.
Bring the whole project home.
Practice protecting the work, the budget, and the people behind both.