Project Management for Instructional Designers

Goals

• Define the differences between instructional design and project management.

• Discuss the benefits of using project management principles.

• Define a "project" and its three requirements.

• Identify skills that a project manager needs to be successful.

• Identify a generic project life cycle.

• Identify the five process groups of project management.

• Define project initiation and the two outputs of the process.

• Discuss the project charter.

• Discuss who stakeholders can be and how to identify them.

• Identify different ways to classify stakeholders.

• Define project planning and its related terms: scope, objectives, outcomes, milestones, and work breakdown structure.

• Identify scope creep and explain how to prevent it.

• Identify the sections and components of a project plan.

• Describe the functions and advantages of using a WBS.

• Describe the purpose of a kick-off meeting.

• List and describe five ways to manage and direct the project work during execution.

• Discuss how to manage change.

• Define and give examples of OPAs.

• Discuss how and why lessons learned are gathered.

• Differentiate between crashing and fast-tracking a project.

• Discuss why political and cultural awareness is important in project communications.

• Describe the differences between quality control and scope validation.

• List at least three things that happen during project closure.

• Discuss gathering & processing lessons learned.

• Describe the difference between closing the project and reviewing the project.

• Describe the purpose of a project implementation review.

Prerequisites

• None are required, but a basic understanding of academic course building or instruction is helpful.