At my place of work, we are conducting project management classes based on the PMBOK framework. Part of the curriculum is to apply PMBOK to a case study. This is where I need help. I am having difficulty finding a case study to work on in class. We are looking for a simple case where the students can produce the following:
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Surely there must be a real live situation where you work in which you can use this exercise to demonstrate the value of the process. Every organization has projects wanting for this kind of structure and discipline. You'd be surprised at the interest level you might get. Saving Changes...
You could always use the real live example of your Project Management Training project. The students can all relate to this as they are experiencing it directly, and it might help clarify the learning objectives at the same time. Saving Changes...
I once used a simple case of a house construction. Generally speaking people understand better a project like this then a complex IT project. The case had the value of not being in the same business as the student were working for. Saving Changes...
We too have used the house construction case study, but we always get comments from our audience that they want the case study to be more IT-focused. However, no matter what IT project you pick for your case study, there will always be at least one person in the audience who has little or no familiarity with the subject matter (and therefore can't follow) and at least one person in the audience who is the world's greatest expert on the subject matter (and therefore will derail your training objective by focusing the discussion on some obscure technical issue). We haven't found a way to win this one--if anyone else has had a better experience with a generic case study (taking a vacation? planning a wedding?), please advise! Saving Changes...
