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Helpful Information for Instructors Using Project Risk The Project Risk game can be played successful in many different formats and venues. This section of the web site is dedicated to providing you with best practices to help make your training experience rewarding and enjoyable. Helpful Instructor Downloads Important Tips for Instructors Using the Project Risk Game Player Instruction sheets Ways to Use the Project Risk Game Gearing your college course around the Project Risk game and the companion project management workbook Schedule a Project Risk competition with another project management class. Game play as a group assignment One-on-one approach (Instructor working with Learner) One-on-one competitive approach (competitive teams playing against each other) 90-minute group session with a trainer facilitating without Earned Value with Earned Value option 2-hour session with a trainer facilitating 4-hour session with a trainer facilitating 8-hour workshop with a trainer facilitating 16-hour workshop with a trainer facilitating 4-day workshop with a trainer facilitating Using the Project Risk Game to Teach Earned Value An optional Earned Value exercise comes in each Project Risk box. In addition to using the Project Risk game to teach good project management practices and risk management, it also can be used to teach earned value. Click here to download a spreadsheet and chart of the project planned value so that learners can track their actual cost and earned value based on their game performance. Only one sheet is needed per team. Here are a few tips when teaching earned value in conjunction with the Project Risk game: When calculating the actual cost, remember that although the value of most of the steps is 1 chip, the value of the executing steps is 5 chips each. When calculating the actual cost, DO NOT factor in the project funding - which consists of the 50 chips to start at Initiation, and then the additional funding of 10 chips upon passing each additional process group. When calculating the actual cost, DO factor in the cost of implementing your risk strategies. Quiz Questions for the Basic Game Play Quiz Questions for the Earned Value Activity Set-Up Tips Stack the chips in piles of 10. This makes counting faster. If you are using the Earned Value sheet (optional) lay a red and a black pen on top of the sheet so they don't have to search for them later. Open the workbook up next to the gameboard. That indicates that learners are supposed to use it as opposed to hold it for later. Lay the instruction sheet right on top of the game board and encourage early arrivers to read the instructions. If you have teams competing against each other, consider using a flip chart to track the period progression of the teams.
Gameboard "Seconds" Available We have a batch of gameboards that we set aside because they didn't pass our quality inspections. You have to contact us directly in order to take advantage of this offer, but if you are just ordering the Project Riskgame to evaluate it's potential future use or if you have a quick and dirty session planned, you may want to just order one or a few of our Project Risk game seconds. Seconds boards cost $10 plus shipping Seconds full Project Risk game sets only cost $60 per game set plus shipping. Seconds have a Project Risk board that we have considered defective, and these are not available to order via our store or through our distributors. Most of the defects have either blotchy printing, a winkle, a dent, or some sort of flaw in the board. The seconds we send with these orders are still totally readable and usable if you are willing to overlook these visable, but not functional, flaws. They still contain all of the other game set parts such as the chips, instructions, pawns, and risk cards. The other parts are not seconds - just the board is flawed. Please contact us if you want to take this tremendous cost savings and order seconds. Some instructors have used the seconds boards to allow their game participants to actually write on the boards with Sharpie pens as they track their game progress, and occassional regressions, in the end providing them a visual overview of the period-by-period progressions.

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