Your mission
You run the acquisition desk for a tower company. Five candidate sites are ready to enter the lifecycle. Your job is to get each one to handover, ready for installation, before the target date.
- You control when Diligence and Approvals start relative to the stage before them.
- Starting early saves days, but money spent on a site that later collapses is written off.
- Disruption cards are dealt per site. Every plan faces the same cards on the same deal, so comparisons are fair.
Design your plan
| Stage | Typical days | Cost per site (INR lakh) |
|---|
Illustrative durations and costs for training use. Ask your facilitator to calibrate them to your own region and site types.
Deal the disruption cards
Results
Debrief
- Which overlap saved the most days, and which one carried the most risk?
- When the owner walked away, what did the serial plan lose, and what did the parallel plan lose?
- Which disruption card hurt every plan, and what could you have done earlier to absorb it?
- Where would you set the sliders for a site with a clean, well-known owner, and where for a doubtful one?
How the simulation and score work
Timeline. Plan, Identify and Survey run one after another. Negotiate follows Survey. Diligence starts when Negotiate reaches the percentage you set. Approvals start when Diligence reaches the percentage you set. Handover starts when Negotiate, Diligence and Approvals have all finished.
Cards. Rent hike adds 6 days to Negotiate. Title encumbrance adds 8 days to Diligence (3 with the early check). NOC delay adds 10 days to Approve. Structural reinforcement adds 6 days to Diligence. Owner walks away happens 60% into negotiation: the site is dropped, a backup site restarts at Identify, and the Diligence and Approve spend already incurred is written off.
Score. 10 points per site handed over on time, plus 1.5 points per average day saved against the serial baseline, minus 3 points per INR lakh written off or spent on safeguards. The score never goes below zero.