It is better to start with six members as it is not unusual for a team to loose a member over the 22 weeks. You can have a larger number of participants but there will not be very much for them to do and this will have an impact on what everyone learns. In any simulation you learn by doing. Prior to, and throughout the course we will e-mail up to six individuals per team. Once the simulation part of the course starts, participants typically meet on a bi-weekly basis with their team to make the bank's management decisions.
Teams can usually make their management decisions in less than two hours.
There are nine decisions during the simulation at two week intervals. The team meets at the convenience of its members. Courses can be run at a weekly decision pace if all participants agree. The educational support materials are clear and well-organized. The BanRisk educational materials include a thorough introduction to banking basics and to the computer simulation, analytical exercises for participants to use during the program to assess the data generated by the computer model, and educational readings to provide participants with banking concepts that they can apply and evaluate through the simulation.