Chapter 3. Stage 1: Defining the Project

Sometimes called the project charter, the e-learning project definition is your “license” to do business as a project team. When you define your e-learning project, you identify

  • the problem to be solved (or the opportunity to be seized!)

  • a vision of the finished e-learning product and its principal features

  • the project objectives that translate this vision into a concrete set of deliverables to produce to complete the project and solve the problem

  • the scope of the product itself

  • the scope of the project itself, with definitions of roles and responsibilities of all parties involved

  • the relative priorities of time, cost, and quality/scope

  • the risks that might threaten the project

  • the overall method you’ll use ...

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