Education Method for Project Management using a Risk Simulator

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26330408
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Learning support system
• Research Institution: National Institute of Informatics (2015-2016); Tokyo University of Technology (2014)
• Principal Investigator: Nakamura Taichi 国立情報学研究所, 先端ソフトウェア工学・国際研究センター, 特任教授 (60386761)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: プロジェクトマネジメント / ロールプレイ演習 / リスクシミュレーション / システムダイナミックスモデル / Ribrics

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order for a learner to acquire a decision-making skill, we have developed a simulation-based role-play training system. The learner can cycle the decision-making processes: observe the state of a project; find a problem; investigate the cause; take an action to solve the problem; monitor the state varying with time during role-play. We focus on the earned value to preset the state of a project. In order to simulate the state of a project, the system dynamics model applies the cause-and-effect relationship of every risk factors and their countermeasures and calculates the magnitude of the effect lowering the earned value. The simulation-based role-play training was adapted for lectures for the third year undergraduate students. One of the interesting results of the role-play training is that students could make a better decision in consideration of the influences caused by a learner’s action taken in a previous development processes after they experienced role-play three times.

Free Research Field

プロジェクトマネジメント教育