Project Management for Trainers: Stop "Winging It" and Get Control of Your Training Projects

Chapter 2. Defining the Project

Q:	Why do most projects struggle?
A:	The scope of the project changes without the resources changing.

This chapter will show you how to do the following:

• Document the scope of a learning event project

• Document the business objectives of the learning event project

• Document the learning objectives of the learning event

• Document the risks and constraints of a learning event project

• Evaluate alternatives and choose one

• Build a stakeholder communication plan.

When a project begins, or in order to get funding to begin, the project manager must create a project charter. This document can be called many different things (for example, the overall project plan, the project mission, or the scope document of understanding), but its ...