Project Triage

This interactive training experience is designed to help learners practice prioritizing competing tasks under real-world time constraints. Players are presented with a series of urgent project issues and decide which order to address them.

The scenario encourages critical thinking and time mangement while simulating a high-pressure environment.

Replayability is built in through randomized options, allowing the players to experience different combinations of challenges and feedback on each run-through.

 Learning Objectives: Using Project Triage players will learn to

  • Analyze project issues and assess their relative urgency and impact.

  • Priortize competing tasks based on available time, resources, and stakeholder needs.

  • Reflect on the outcome of their decisions

Game Design

  • Players step into the role of project manager prepping for a kickoff call

  • They have 30 seconds to review a list of 15 priorities

  • They are given 5 randome priorities and need to place them in the correct order.

  • It’s simple, fast-paced, and thousands of possibilities

Target Audience

  • Professionals involved in project or team management

  • Mid-level managers

  • Team leaders

  • New project managers

  • Workshops to get discussions going

Key Features

  • Interactivity: Players actively choose and sort tasks reinforcing decision-making through hands on interaction.

  • Replayability: Players can repeat this game as many time as they like

  • Simple and Flexible: This activity is short, focused, and easy to integrate into broader training sessions.

  • Accessible Design: Built with intuitive interaction, this game is approachable by a wide audience both expert and novice alike.

Tools used: Storyline 360 · JavaScript · Affinity Designer · ChatGPT ·