Patent ID: 6817613
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A project management game, comprising:a game board having indicia thereon, the indicia representing a plurality of tasks that collectively form a plurality of deliverables to be completed and to be managed by a plurality of participants in the project management game, wherein the participants form one or more teams that play the project management game; a plurality of game pieces positioned on the game board, each of the game pieces representing a selected one of the teams, wherein the project management game ends when one or more of the game pieces reach a project closedown portion of the game board; a first die having a plurality of sides with numbers thereon, wherein the first die may be rolled in order to indicate a number of spaces to be moved by a selected one of the game pieces; a second die having a plurality of sides with numbers thereon, wherein the second die may be rolled in order to indicate a cost value associated with one or more of the tasks, wherein a selected one of the participants plays the role of a coach operable to control a selected one of a set of risk, budgetary, and game piece movement parameters associated with the project management game; a bank that includes game board currency, the bank being monitored by the chief financial officer, wherein the chief financial officer provides a designated sum of game board currency to each of the teams and collects a portion of the game board currency from each of the teams based on movement of the respective game piece by each of the teams; a third die, the third die being controlled by the coach and incorporated into game play in order to dictate a selected project management game parameter chosen by the coach; wherein the participants play roles of six functional leaders, a project manager, and a chief financial officer while playing the project management game, the functional leaders each representing a team that navigates through a plurality of the tasks represented on the game board, the project manager executing a plurality of reviews at selected stages of the project management game, the chief financial officer operable to dictate financial parameters to the participants for the tasks.