As input, we had four interesting sessions of training from an industrial perspective:

• Frowin presented a table top game for project management, where players were confronted with the difficulty of making decisions and not having sufficient resources.
• Matthias gave insight into their claims management training courses, providing input into the learning process used.
• Wolfgang shared their experiences of project management “bootcamps”, where junior project managers would be prepared to confront the reality of dealing with projects at customer sites, with significant focus on social skills.
• Siegi presented the effectiveness of doing retrospective by means of storytelling with images, which also made the exercise "fun" and provided some personal distance from the issues.

Without doubt, Siemens has a significant wealth of experience on effective training that provides insights to "on the ground" methodologies and approaches. In the course of the workshop it turned out that many of the methods Siemens developed or has experience with, match with theoretical approaches from academe side. Thus, for several ones the applicability in ‘real life’ has already been proven.

We were hard at work, and nearly ran out of wall space. Nonetheless, all was done in a highly engaging and motivating manner.

The desired outcomes of the workshop were reached, with further insight into the identification of Threshold Concepts in project management and the definition of the game scenario to support the project shaping phase, where the project manager is confronted with many social challenges of putting the right team together, defining clearly the project taking into account the resources available and likely unforeseen critical incidents that may emerge.

Matthias proved to be an exceptional host, so with the volcano disruption to travel, there could not be a better place and people to be stranded with. We even had some guided sightseeing over the weekend.