Interactive Learning - Teaching IT Project Management Using an Explorative Role Play

摘要

The awareness of companywide (as well as cross-company) process and data integration and the importance of application systems effect education and advanced training in a way that the concept of integration needs to be taught to students. Today, business applications have an increasing degree of complexity and functional integration. Whereas the design of Very Large Business Applications is a main part in business informatics lectures, their configuration - practiced especially in consulting projects - is not yet part of most curricula. This paper introduces an explorative role play that may be used to impart soft skills in communication, teamwork or consultancy as well as hard skills like IT project management, system analysis and configuration.