Management simulation
Team management simulator
A solo management game - lead a software team sprint by sprint, watch budget, morale and quality, and ship the product on time.
What is the Team management simulator simulation?
The team management simulator is a single-player game in which you play the manager of a software team. You have a set number of sprints to finish the project (100% progress). Each sprint you choose what the team focuses on, and every so often you have to react to unexpected events.
Five metrics are woven into the game: budget (you pay salaries each sprint - going below zero is bankruptcy), morale (dropping to zero means the team falls apart), quality (low quality slows delivery and hurts reputation), reputation (affects the final grade) and energy (a tired team works slower). You can hire people, run team events and training. At the end you get a grade and a score.
Features
Key capabilities
Sprint-by-sprint play
Each sprint you pick the team's focus and react to the situation, aiming for 100% progress before the deadline.
Budget management
You pay salaries each sprint - going below zero means bankruptcy and game over.
Morale, quality, reputation
You watch the team's metrics: neglecting any one of them costs you in the result.
Random events
Unexpected situations force decisions and show the consequences of trade-offs.
Final grade
After the last sprint you get a grade and score - an incentive to play better.
Building the team
Hire developers, designers, testers and leads from the candidate pool - or let people go when the budget stops adding up.
Step by step
How it works
Start the game
Learn the rules and metrics, then take over a team with a set deadline.
Plan the sprint
Choose what the team focuses on and optionally spend budget on hiring, a team event or training.
React to events
You run the sprint, settle the result and react to any random events that appear.
Ship the product
Repeat until you reach 100% progress before the deadline - at the end you get your grade and score.
Use cases
What it’s good for
- An introduction to team and project management
- Showing trade-offs between budget, quality and morale
- Practising decisions under resource and time pressure
- A solo reflective game to debrief a session
- Show the trade-off between deadline, budget and quality
- A management game each person can play on their own
- A team-leadership simulation for a management course
Training by Octigo
Want this run as a full training?
You are free to run our games and simulations on your own. But if you would like us to deliver a complete training, with a professional debrief and the concepts behind the “Team management simulator” simulation explained in depth, get in touch. Octigo is a professional training company with 20 years of experience and many awards for its simulations.
- 20 years of experience in corporate training
- Award-winning training simulations
- A professional debrief and takeaways after the session
- A programme tailored to your goals and your team
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