Simulation Games in the Project Management Environment Juan L. Cano, Ruben Rebollar, Maria J. Saenz Project Engineering Area. Faculty of Engineering. University of Zaragoza E-mail: jlcano@posta. unizar. es, rebollar@posta. unizar. es, mjsaenz@posta. unizar. es Key words: simulation games, project management, negociation, training tool, role- playing. Abstract: The paper describes and analyses the experiences obtained in the development of PROSIGA and TRAINER games in the project management environment. The benefits of using simulation games are presented, as well as the outlooks for further work with this type oftools. Different aspects of the games development process are commented and specifically the overall effort involved is exposed. 1. NEED The increasing introduction of project management philosophy in industry, clearly shown by the tremendous increase in the number of official members of the PMI (Project Management Institute), IPMA (International Project Management Association) and AIPM (Australian Institute of Project Management), is a good indicator of the growing training demand in this field. It is necessary to provide ways to experiment in which it is possible to act out the management of a project. In order to learn how to manage a project, the best method is to manage it. For that reason, a series of tools has been developed that, by means of The original version of this chapter was revised: The copyright line was incorrect. This has been corrected. The Erratum to this chapter is available at DOI: © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2000 J. O. Riis et al. (eds.), Games in Operations Management 10.1007/978-0-387-35506-1_17