Yuki Tachikawa

A method for evaluating project management competency acquired from role-play training

The information technology industry in Japan has required universities to provide project management education. In Tokyo University of Technology, role-play training has been carried out as part of project management education. The role-play scenarios necessary to run role-play exercises have been created in accordance with the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) model. This paper describes a method for evaluating project management competency that learners gain through role-play training conducted using the scenarios. Competency in project management is assessed from a learners behavior characteristics in taking an appropriate action when needed. We first examined the quality of the role-play scenarios by using a design checklist based on Goal-Based Scenarios (GBS). In addition, we analyzed the behavior of each learner during a role-play exercise by using rubrics based on how the user behaved. A high correlation was found between the acquired skill with which learners generally played the role assigned to them in role-play training and the level of quality of the role-play scenario. Based on the analysis results, we will propose a method for helping learners to be able to take effective action by providing appropriate advice from a software agent and feedback from a teacher, along with use of the GBS checklist.

Education for requirements elicitation using group-work and role-play

In this paper, the requirement education methods we have proposed using role-play are introduced, and the difficulty for practicing requirements elicitation skill is discussed. In order to lead a system development project to success, skill exhaustively eliciting requirements with a customers genuine need is definitely required. We propose the way of systematically developing the goal-oriented requirements model. The result for comparing the goal model diagram developed by the proposed way with the previously developed diagram as an answer obviously shows the proposed way is effective.

Integrated role-play training system for project management education: On-line group work training environment in cooperaetion with an agent system

This demonstration introduces the method for project management education using role-play operated on an on-line group-work training environment with a software agent system, and a scenario editing system. Also a structure of a role-play scenario as an important teaching material is explained.

PMBOK simulator for acquiring decision making competencies in project management education

The information technology industry in Japan has required universities to provide project management education. In Tokyo University of Technology, role-play training has been carried out as part of project management education. In the work described in this paper, we focus on the development of system in order to acquire skills of project management competency area of decision making required for an excellent project manager. Comparative evaluation shows that role-play exercises using the developed system have a much greater educational effectiveness.