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Team Capacity – The Business Simulation for Utilization and Project Steering

In the simulation, teams experience the reality of modern service and project organizations: limited capacities, shifting priorities, parallel client projects and the constant challenge of planning resources sensibly without overloading people. Between utilization, quality, deadlines and spontaneous client requests, it quickly becomes clear why good project steering is far more than just a full calendar.

HBS Business Simulation Team Capacity – Teams managing resources and project steering
1–3 Days
Duration
3–4
People per Group
2
Languages Available
None
Prerequisites
How It Works

Really Experiencing Project Business and Team Capacities

Teams steer a project-driven organization with parallel client projects, limited resources and constantly shifting priorities. Employees have to be deployed sensibly, projects coordinated and decisions made under time pressure – while quality, deadlines and profitability must be kept in view at the same time.

It quickly becomes tangible how challenging it is to juggle between utilization and overload, speed and quality, or client demands and team capacities. This is exactly where the typical discussions and aha moments of modern service and project organizations arise.

Over the course of the simulation, teams experience directly how their decisions affect company results, profitability and financial metrics. This also makes steering instruments such as OKRs, balanced scorecards or KPI systems tangible and easy to understand in practice.

The simulation combines operational project steering with strategic thinking – interactive, dynamic and with many insights for your own everyday business.

Projects. Priorities. Profitability.

Learning Objectives

What Participants Take Away

The simulation makes the dynamics of modern service and project organizations directly tangible – with real resource bottlenecks, spontaneous client requests, priority chaos and plenty of aha moments for your own everyday work.

Steer team capacities and parallel projects realistically
Prioritize better between utilization, quality and deadlines
Experience resource planning and project steering hands-on
Understand the impact of decisions on profitability and key metrics
Make strategic steering with OKRs, KPIs or balanced scorecards tangible
Improve collaboration, communication and time management within the team
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

For teams, leaders and project-driven organizations that work with parallel client projects, scarce resources and shifting priorities. The simulation is particularly exciting for consultancies, IT services, service companies and organizations in which people and capacities are the decisive success factor. In short: for anyone who has to juggle utilization, quality and deadlines – which is really almost every modern project business.

The simulation is flexibly structured and can be run as a one-day workshop or a multi-day format, depending on the objective.

No. The simulation works for both newcomers and experienced project and team leaders. Far more important than prior knowledge is the willingness to make decisions together and to set priorities.

The simulation can be conducted in German or English.

Yes – although it usually becomes clear quickly: it's not only the simulation that has to adapt, but sometimes the organization itself. Because as soon as resources become scarce, priorities collide and several projects run at the same time, perfect PowerPoint slides no longer help – only good collaboration, clear decisions and transparency do. That is exactly what the simulation makes visible.

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