Gathering and Transferring Wisdom
The Major Projects Association was established in 1981 with the key objective of sharing their members’ experience, knowledge and ideas about major projects – both successes and failures – to help others avoid mistakes and incorporate good practice so that future projects would be better initiated and delivered.
The MPA has since held over 150 seminars and conferences aimed at gathering and sharing expertise on the most topical issues in major project management.
In 2007, the board of the MPA decided to invest in the development of a computer simulation that converted this accumulated wisdom into a learning tool that gives participants a chance to “live” the challenges associated with leading complex projects. Working closely with the MPA’s network of experts, Prendo developed a simulation that captures the key disciplines of major project management, including: defining objectives and scope, clarifying success criteria, contract strategy, managing risk and uncertainty, managing stakeholders, scheduling and resourcing, integrated teamwork – i.e. the areas in which mistakes are often made.
The simulation is available to MPA members and also non-member organisations, for use in training and increasingly in project initiation events.
By combining the Major Projects Association's unrivalled knowledge of how to manage for project success with Prendo’s unique computer modelling capability, we have produced what I believe to be quite the most effective project management learning tool there is.
Dr Martin Barnes CBE, MPA Board Member, APM President
