Project Management in the Ed Tech Era
How to Successfully Plan and Manage Your School's Next Innovation
1st Edition
Published on 5. April 2018
126 pages
979-8-216-32559-8 (ISBN)
Description
More than 80% of Technology projects fail. What does that mean? It means the project has broken one of the "Triple Constraints", scope, time, and budget. This book is focused on project planning and project management of IT projects in the education realm.This book provides the most streamlined methods for defining, developing, documenting, and executing any Education Technology project. It provides the methods to insure integrity and accuracy in the planning phase, and control and communication in the execution phase. It defines how projects start and end, and all the milestones and control points in the middle. And it details how you can execute it all. After reading this book, you will have the methods, templates and examples, in order to deliver successful Education Technology projects, but more importantly, this book will give you the insights of how to become a successful Education Technology Project Manager.
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Darryl Vidal
Project Management in the Ed Tech Era
How to Successfully Plan and Manage Your School's Next Innovation
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04/2018
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Darryl Vidal holds a Bachelor's degree in Business and a Master's degree in Education Technology and has been consulting for K-12 school technology programs for over 20 years. He has been responsible for planning long-range technology programs for schools of over $2 billion and holds the registered trademark for authoring the MAPIT® Strategic Planning and Project Management methodology.
Content
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
MAPIT® IT Project Management
Strategic Planning vs. Project Planning
CHAPTER ONE - PROJECT FUNDAMENTALS
Project Plan
Project Management
Key Concepts
First Things First - Project Initiation
CHAPTER TWO - CORE PROCESSES - CREATING THE PROJECT PLAN
Scope Development
Task Definitions
Task Sequencing
Resource Staffing
Schedule Development
Project Budget
Plan Development
CHAPTER THREE - SUPPORT PROCESSES
Communications Plan
Project Control Plan
Resource Staffing Plan
Risk Management Plan
Change Management Plan
Quality Assurance Plan
Data Integrity Plan
Project Completion, Acceptance, Delivery and Closeout
Project Execution
FINAL THOUGHTS
About the Author
Preface
Introduction
MAPIT® IT Project Management
Strategic Planning vs. Project Planning
CHAPTER ONE - PROJECT FUNDAMENTALS
Project Plan
Project Management
Key Concepts
First Things First - Project Initiation
CHAPTER TWO - CORE PROCESSES - CREATING THE PROJECT PLAN
Scope Development
Task Definitions
Task Sequencing
Resource Staffing
Schedule Development
Project Budget
Plan Development
CHAPTER THREE - SUPPORT PROCESSES
Communications Plan
Project Control Plan
Resource Staffing Plan
Risk Management Plan
Change Management Plan
Quality Assurance Plan
Data Integrity Plan
Project Completion, Acceptance, Delivery and Closeout
Project Execution
FINAL THOUGHTS
About the Author
