Day 1: Project Initiation and Plan Development

Project Foundation and Business Rationale

• Define need result and principal sponsor
• Frame clear objectives and success criteria
• Identify key initial stakeholders
• Create simplified work breakdown for case

Scope, Work Structure, and Boundaries

• Define deliverables and scope boundaries
• Break scope into manageable work components
• Write fundamental acceptance criteria
• Create simplified work breakdown for case

Time, Resources, and Milestones

• Sequence activities according to dependencies
• Estimate durations and required skills
• Define important delivery milestones
• Prepare an initial project schedule

Day 2: Executing Work, Monitoring, and Managing Change

Execution and Team Coordination

• Assign work and clarify accountability
• Run meetings around decisions and blockers
• Maintain information flow among stakeholders
• Simulate one project execution week

Progress Monitoring and Variance Reading

• Collect evidence on completion and timing
• Compare current status with the baseline
• Identify deviation before impact expands
• Prepare a concise project status report

Risk, Change, and Decision Control

• Update risks and issues during execution
• Analyze change-request effects on the plan
• Document decisions and update baselines appropriately
• Role-play a simple change review

Day 3: Delivery, Closure, and Project Laboratory

Deliverable Verification and Acceptance

• Review delivery against acceptance criteria
• Manage remaining observations before approval
• Document key beneficiary acceptance
• Prepare a delivery-readiness checklist

Project Closure and Knowledge Retention

• Close contracts resources and project records
• Transfer knowledge and documentation into operations
• Extract key execution lessons
• Prepare a concise closure report

Complete Lifecycle Simulation

• Receive a project with initial information
• Build plans responsive to changing events
• Deliver outputs and close them formally
• Review decisions with peers

• One project case continuing through the full lifecycle
• Simplified charter scope schedule and reporting templates
• Change and risk situations during execution
• Integrated simulation concluding with closure