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Project Simulation Lab

A half-day expert workshop in which a team or cohort runs a simulated project in rounds: plan, deliver, absorb changes and report, then takes the lessons into its own projects.

  • Format Live online or in person
  • Scope One topic, five blocks
  • Duration 3.5 hours
  • Cost Quote on request

About this workshop

Project Management Fundamentals teaches how to plan, deliver and report. This workshop is a project compressed into a half-day: the group plans it, runs it in rounds, gets hit by the changes every real project gets hit by, and reports to a sponsor who asks hard questions. The facilitator is a practitioner who has run projects and run this simulation for other groups.

The simulation is the same for everyone; the debrief is not. Each group leaves with its own notes on what it will change in the projects it is actually running, which is why teams book it together rather than sending people one at a time.

  • Live, with a practitioner facilitator, for one group of up to 20
  • Exercises adapted to your own cases in a scoping call
  • An impact report within a week

A certificate is issued to participants who attended and completed the exercise, and recorded on the TechClass platform.

Agenda

  1. Block 1

    Opening

    Goals, your group's context, and what participants will leave with.

    15 min
  2. Block 2

    Learn

    The project brief and the round structure: what the simulated project has to deliver, what can go wrong, and how each round is scored.

    50 min
  3. Block 3

    Practice

    The simulation, in rounds: plan the project, deliver a round, absorb the changes the facilitator introduces, and report to the sponsor.

    60 min
  4. Block 4

    Apply

    The debrief: what the group takes into its own projects, written down as changes to how it plans, reports and handles change.

    45 min
  5. Block 5

    Close

    Summary, commitments and feedback.

    15 min

3.5 hours including two breaks: a morning from 9:00 to 12:30 or an afternoon from 13:00 to 16:30, in your time zone. Practice and Apply take more than half of the working time. You leave with the group's debrief notes: what it takes into its own projects.

Applies this Skills course

The workshop is the live, hands-on application of this course. In a blended program the course is the pre-work; the workshop is where the group puts it to work on its own cases.

Who it is for

  • Specialists who run projects in HR, marketing, IT and operations
  • Teams that work on projects together
  • A cohort in a continuous learning program

Fee and registration

Quote on request

Price For up to 20 participants, with a fee for each extra participant up to 30. In person adds travel at cost. There are no design fees: adapting the exercises to your cases is part of every workshop.
Per workshop, quoted on inquiry
Pre-work In a blended program the Skills course is the pre-work and its licenses are quoted with the workshop. A standalone workshop uses a short Essentials course, included with every license.
The Skills course, or an Essentials course
Group
Up to 20 per facilitator; 21 to 30 with a second facilitator

How to book

  1. Get in touch

    Tell us the workshop, the group and whether you want it online or on site. We come back with a proposal: the date and slot, the delivery, the facilitator and the price.

  2. Scoping call

    Three to four weeks before the day, a 30-minute call about your goals, the group and its own cases. The facilitator adapts the exercises to them.

  3. Pre-work and the half-day

    Participants are enrolled on TechClass and take the pre-work one to two weeks before. Then the workshop itself: 3.5 hours, a morning or an afternoon in your time zone.

  4. Certificates and the impact report

    Within a week: certificates for participants who attended and completed the exercise, feedback collected, and a short report of attendance, feedback, what was produced and the agreed next step.

Workshops serve companies and education organizations alike. A cohort in a continuous learning program books the same workshop; the institution stays responsible for its program and any credit.

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Questions, answered

Project Simulation Lab FAQ

Yes. The scoping call before the day brings your own cases into the exercises, and the facilitator adapts them. The topic and the length stay the same. A topic outside the catalog is scoped and quoted separately.

In a blended program, yes: the course is the pre-work and the workshop applies it. For a standalone workshop, participants take a short Essentials course on the same subject one to two weeks before; Essentials courses are included with every TechClass license.

Up to 20 participants with one facilitator, and 21 to 30 with a second facilitator. Above 30 it is no longer a workshop; ask us about a program instead.

Either. Live online for teams anywhere in Europe and the USA, with a producer running the breakout rooms and the tech. In person at your site, in Finland and the Helsinki region first and elsewhere in Europe on request, with travel at cost.

English or Finnish, as you choose. The agenda is the same in both.

Yes. Participants who attended and completed the exercise receive a certificate, recorded on the TechClass platform alongside their other training.

Workshops are priced per workshop for up to 20 participants, with a fee for each extra participant up to 30, and quoted on inquiry. In person adds travel at cost. There are no design fees.

Within a week, an impact report: attendance, feedback, what participants produced, and the agreed next step. It reports only what was measured.

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Book the Project Simulation Lab for your team

A half-day, live online or in person, that runs a project in rounds and ends with what your group changes in its own projects.