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

Practical Exercises

Think about your own project for a moment and consider how you might put into practice the define phase described in this chapter. Exercises have been provided for you to create the following deliverables from this phase:

• The business objectives of the learning event project

• The learning objectives of the learning event

• The scope of the learning event project

• The risk and constraints of a learning event project

• A stakeholder communication plan.

Exercise 2.1. Creating the business objectives.

What is the business reason for your project? Is the project a reaction to a government regulation or to competition? Consider how this project will increase revenue, avoid cost, and improve service (remember the IRACIS mnemonic). The section ...