Project Management Debriefing
1. I played the game in class and got a score higher than 600. I decided to play it at home but this time just change one varying decision at a time and see how it affects my project. My product only has 4 levels and as the levels get higher and the printers become more sophisticated the amount of time needed to complete the task increases and it affects the team morale and stresses the team members out if the target is not reasonable. However it does not affect our budget by a huge amount.
The team size affects the project in a way that you need more than 1 person to succeed but if you have too many people say 10, it affects the project in a negative way because there would be problems between people, leaving team members stressed and that would result in our project being behind schedule. Also the budget of the project increases by a huge amount that we cannot afford.
The skill level of the team members is very important since our budget increases as their skill level increases however the higher their skill level the better chances of the project being done in time and in a efficient way and with very low rates of mistake, however we have to be careful because if we give high skilled peopled an easy project like level 2 printers then they would get bored.
As far as outsourcing goes, I found that as a very positive aspect of succeeding at this game. Even though it still costs money and it resulted in me being over budget at times, it was worth it because it helped my team members out drastically and not only the morale of the team would be better but the schedule date would be on time with very low rates of mistake.
Prototypes I decided not to do since it cost money and it was not really needed as my other classmates had tested it out. Meetings such as one on one coaching, daily stand up, status reviews were very important also because it affected out how efficient my team members were and if they were in good spirits and not making mistakes. Yet again,
The team size affects the project in a way that you need more than 1 person to succeed but if you have too many people say 10, it affects the project in a negative way because there would be problems between people, leaving team members stressed and that would result in our project being behind schedule. Also the budget of the project increases by a huge amount that we cannot afford.
The skill level of the team members is very important since our budget increases as their skill level increases however the higher their skill level the better chances of the project being done in time and in a efficient way and with very low rates of mistake, however we have to be careful because if we give high skilled peopled an easy project like level 2 printers then they would get bored.
As far as outsourcing goes, I found that as a very positive aspect of succeeding at this game. Even though it still costs money and it resulted in me being over budget at times, it was worth it because it helped my team members out drastically and not only the morale of the team would be better but the schedule date would be on time with very low rates of mistake.
Prototypes I decided not to do since it cost money and it was not really needed as my other classmates had tested it out. Meetings such as one on one coaching, daily stand up, status reviews were very important also because it affected out how efficient my team members were and if they were in good spirits and not making mistakes. Yet again,