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

Documenting Constraints

All projects are constrained by time, money, and quality. The constraints should drive the manner in which the project is managed. A project to build a course for surgeons on the use of a complicated instrument for brain surgery should be managed entirely differently from a course for managers on how to fill out their time sheets. As part of the project charter, your team and stakeholders can use the technique described below to capture the prioritized constraints at the start. Once again, this visual document can be used throughout the project to identify whether any of the constraints have changed.

Figure 2.3 shows the consensus of the project team as to the constraints for the meeting management case example presented ...