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

Chapter 3. Planning the Project

Q:	Why do course developers work on the wrong things at the wrong time?
A:	They don’t take the time to build a detailed enough plan of the work to be performed.

In this chapter you will learn how to carry out the following planning steps:

• Determine the tasks that need to be performed by the project manager and those that should be performed by a developer.
• Build a project plan for learning event development.
• Finalize the business objectives of the learning project.
• Create a work breakdown structure to uncover the activities needed to complete a project.
• Create critical path networks and Gantt charts as part of a project plan.
• Estimate the cost of training projects.
• Accurately estimate work effort for a project. ...