Shtub A. Project Management Simulation with PTB Project Team Builder

Springer, 2012. — 174 p. — ISBN: 1441964622.The Project Team Builder (PTB) meets the need for an effective teaching and training tool of project management. The software introduces the user to the full dynamics of project planning, monitoring and control, moving scenario-wise from the easy, fundamental issues to the more involved, complex ones. Based on a sound conceptual foundation, it provides the ideal individual and team training support for bringing projects to completion effectively and efficiently in a dynamic stochastic environment. Highly recommended Willy Herroelen, Emeritus Professor of Operations Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven The Engineering Project Management School of the Israeli Electric Company (IEC) used the Project Team Builder simulator developed at the Technion. Using PTB, it was possible to practice risk management when uncertainty is presented in resources availability, duration of activities and cash flow. The challenges presented to the students increased motivation. The quality of the learning process, as well as the end results, was excellent. Sergio Klik, Director, Engineering Project Management School, The Israeli Electric Company PTB takes an important step in the right direction. It employs simulation in order to put the student in the real situation where he has to plan and execute projects by handling all issues at once. In particular, it puts the student in a situation where his project is exposed to risk. By this, the student has to combine the isolated and simplified views on projects, and he learns that risk can materialize and that he has to plan and execute the project accordingly. This is a very important aspect of project management which is learnt by doing (and failing) and which has not been delivered this way before. Rainer Kolisch, Professor of Operations Management, TUM School of Management, Technische Universität München (Текст ссылки). A video tutorial of the Project Team Builder (PTB) simulator is available at the following link:Текст ссылки The tutorial presents the PTB version that comes with the book and demonstrates the use of PTB for training and for teaching.I. Introduction
The Need
The Use of Simulation in the Learning ProcessII. The Project Team Builder (PTB)
Principles
Scenarios in PTB
The (Simple) Tutorial Scenarios
Advanced (Challenging) ScenariosIII. The PTB Video TutorialsIV. The PTB User Manual
General
Getting Started
Basic Information
Project Menu
Resources Menu
General Simulation Running Status
PTB Main Views
The Network View
The Gantt View
The Resources View
The Budget View
Project Planning and Control
Project Planning
Project Control
History Mechanism
Undo, Loading, and Running from HistoryV. The Tutorial ScenariosThe (Simple) Tutorial Project
The Unconstrained Deterministic Scenario
The Unconstrained Stochastic Scenario
The Constrained Deterministic Scenario
The Constrained Stochastic ScenarioVI. The Advanced Scenarios
The Electrical Distribution Substation Project
The Tight Resource and a Medium Budget
Constraint ScenarioVII. Using PTB with Microsoft ProjectVIII. Using PTB with Some Simple Project Management
Tools and TechniquesUsing the Excel Solver to Schedule a Non-Constrained
Deterministic Project
Using the Excel Solver to Schedule a Constrained
Deterministic Project
Using a Single Pass Heuristic to Schedule a
Constrained Deterministic Project
Using RESCON to Schedule Constrained Projects
Scenario LRTB Managing Cash Flow of a Constrained,
Stochastic ProjectAbout the Author