Travis Barker, MPA GCPM Innovate Vancouver Consulting@innovatevancouver.org http://innovatevancouver.org The board game is a prototype I used with a team when building a PMO and training teams. Link: https://innovatevancouver.org/2020/05/06/project-management-board-game/ The deck of cards used is essentially any PMBOK study flashcard set. Answer correctly, and you get to move the # rolled on the single dice. The narrative used during play is flexible and allows the 'project manager to lead' the discussion, building out the storyline/project business case as the players move through the board. Alternatively, for larger groups, the players can help build out the narrative/storyline during their team's play - to help test their knowledge of project complexity, barriers, opportunities, process groups, and knowledge areas; identify relevant & familiar project examples to incorporate into the board game, and showcase experience. Another option is to have all players work together, with the facilitator asking PMBOK related questions, probing requirements, risks, strategies, as the team moves through the board. Another option is for each company to have its own 'project type card deck'. These can either be numbered (and selected with a roll of the dice) or determined by pulling a card out of the deck. This then randomly identifies what type of project (with a brief blurb of the scope and risks) the team will be 'working on' while playing the board game. This keeps the challenge relevant, tailored to the team's skill level, and allows pivoting as different project types/products/industries are taken on by the team (in their work). The game ultimately feels a bit like playing 'dungeons and dragons' but with a project management context! -------------------- Interested in using the boardgame for training with your team? Contact Innovate Vancouver for more details.

1. Start
You were just
assigned a new
project.
Congrats!
Product
schedule is
slipping, what
do you do?
Over Cost
Back 2
Spaces
Balanced
Constraints
Ahead 4
Spaces
Schedule is on
track, where
focus now?
Customer is
highly satisfied
with the
process, where
focus now?
Project Quality
is slipping,
what do you
do?
Risks threaten
the project,
what do you
do?
Resources are
available as
scheduled,
where focus
now?
Constraints are
in balance,
where focus
now?
Team
membership
turnover, what
do you do?
Risk is
increasing,
what do you
do?
Below
Customer
Satisfaction,
Go Back to
Start
Costs are
increasing, what
do you do?
Cost is under
control, where
focus now?
Over
Resource
Back 2
Spaces
Another project
is assigned,
what do you
do?
Over Risk,
Skip One
Turn
Scope list is
decreased,
where focus
now?
Over
Schedule
Back 2
Spaces
Project Scope is
increasing!
What do you
do?
Team
membership
increases, what
do you do?
Quality is on
track, where
focus now?
Below
Quality, Go
Back
Another project
is added, what
do you do?
Project
resources are
not available,
what do you
do?
Goals
Achieved!
Project World - The Game of
Managing Constraints & Customer
Requirements!!
Rule:
1) Roll the number cube and pick up a card.
2) If you answer the card correctly, then you
can move the number of spaces on the cube.
3) Two or more players can be on the same
space.
4) Continue to play until some reaches the
finish, and then see who will finish second,
third, etc.