Project Management for Trainers, 2nd Edition

4Planning the Project

Q:	Why do learning 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:

• Build a plan for solving the performance need clarified by your project charter.

• Determine the tasks that need to be performed by the project manager and those that should be performed by stakeholders.

• Build a project schedule.

• Choose the best strategy to uncover the tasks needed to complete a project.

• Create dependency and calendar charts as part of a project schedule.

• Select the best software to share and update the project schedule.

• Estimate the cost of the project based on the project schedule.

• Clarify ...