TITLE:
Simulation in Project and Program Management: Utilization, Challenges and Opportunities
AUTHORS:
Mounir El Khatib, Abdulrahman Alhosani, Ibrahim Alhosani, Omran Al Matrooshi, Muaid Salami
KEYWORDS:
Project Management, Program Management, Simulation, Project Management Education
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.12 No.4,
April
29,
2022
ABSTRACT: Nowadays the program complexity increases and program manager needs to
have specialized skills and knowledge as he faces the most challenging tasks in
his job for making sure that all projects and program component are moving as
per the plan. Thus, program management education plays a critical
role in supporting and enhancing the skill and competencies needed for program
manager so the training has to follow innovative way to overcome the limitation
the traditional courses deliver. Introduction of simulations in project
management has since helped in the exploration of opportunities, expect
scenarios and identify limitations of several factors within the project at
hand however the initial search shows the lack of dedicated and well-known
simulation software for program management compared to many simulation tools
for project management training. This research paper seeks to explore and study
the usage of simulation tools in program management and study if Program
Management can benefit from available Project Management simulation as well as
how current can be enhanced for that and do we need separated software or
better to enhance current software. For that, observation has to be done to
explore that and come up with appropriate recommendations and suggestions. This
will include defining the simulation tools in general, its objectives, pros
& cons, challenges & opportunities, sample of project management
simulation then followed by research methods including survey, questionnaires
for interviewees and output from what we studied so method depends on
qualitative data due to lack of secondary data. This will be built up to get
understanding on program manager requirement for simulation as possible.