This project management simulation models the tradeoffs between cost, time, and quality. The choices aren’t right or wrong (at least mostly); it’s mostly a question of your priorities. You can choose to prioritize reducing the cost and time, or you can choose to prioritize providing the highest quality solution possible. You can also try to land somewhere in the middle, balancing all of those factors. You also have to keep your client satisfied with your choices. There are a few traps where certain decisions can create additional challenges down the road, but it’s more focused on how you weigh those different factors. While much of this is a typical branching scenario, some of the choices are controlled by calculated variables rather than hard coded.
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Simulated project status dashboard
At the bottom of the branching scenario is a simulated project status dashboard. The elapsed days increase as you continue through the scenario, showing the passage of time. The total days to completion, days remaining, cost, quality, and satisfaction increase or decrease depending on your choices. These are all dynamically controlled with variables.
This dashboard provides feedback to the user at each step in the process. There’s no explicit instructional feedback until the very end, right before you can restart the scenario. It’s all focused on the intrinsic feedback of showing the consequences of your choices and how that affects the project.
I built this branching scenario in Twine, and I generated the character images in Midjourney.
This simulation is designed to work best on a tablet or larger screen. The project dashboard at the bottom may not display correctly on small screens.