Embracing Business Context in Pedagogical Simulation Games--A Case with Process Disciplined Project Management

The dynamics of business and software engineering in the flattened world poses both challenges and opportunities in terms of pedagogical exploration and innovative experiments. A generic pedagogical scenario is to serve the purpose by incorporating two empiricist approaches in management education to emphasize situated authentic experiences in context. A case contextualized game for software project management discipline is generated, with a teaching case of the multinational textile company, and used in class instruction with statistically positive responses.