Project Managing E-Learning

Chapter 3. Stage 1: Defining the Project

Sometimes called the project charter, the e-learning project definition is your “license” to do business as a project team. When you define your e-learning project, you identify

• the problem to be solved (or the opportunity to be seized!)

• a vision of the finished e-learning product and its principal features

• the project objectives that translate this vision into a concrete set of deliverables to produce to complete the project and solve the problem

• the scope of the product itself

• the scope of the project itself, with definitions of roles and responsibilities of all parties involved

• the relative priorities of time, cost, and quality/scope

• the risks that might threaten the project

• the overall method you’ll use ...