Time/cost trade-offs and a new record

Yesterday, 09/10/2013, more than 200 students (214, to be precise) - most of them from Ghent University but also including several Erasmus students from various countries -  have optimized time/cost trade-offs in project scheduling using the Project Scheduling Game (PSG). Three rooms full of computers and 214 students staring at the beautiful Gantt chart of the game.

It's the first time that we exceed the 200 students threshold, so that's a new PSG record. Moreover, it was also the first time for Pieter to give the introduction and feedback session of the game... standing in front of an audience, relaxed at the outside, nervous inside. But he did well and survived. Well done, everyone.

The schedule:

Group 1
13:00-13:30: introduction in auditorium André Devreker (Mathieu)
13:30-15:00: Project Scheduling Game (computer room 1) (Mathieu)
15:15-15:45: Feedback in auditorium André Devreker (Mathieu)

Group 2
14:30-15:00: introduction in auditorium André Devreker (Pieter)
15:00-16:30: Project Scheduling Game (computer rooms 1 and 2) (Pieter, Louis-Philippe and Mathieu)
16:45:17:15: Feedback in auditorium André Devreker (Pieter)

Thank you Mathieu, Pieter and Louis-Philippe, thank you to all the students and thank you to PSG for running well again ("what else did you expect?").

Interested in the PSG? Download the PSG folder or come to EVM Europe 2013 and follow our session on "Young Researchers in Project Management and Control".