Consultancy For Managing Projects

Consultancy for Managing Educational Projects

Contents

Introduction 2

Part One. Project preparation 4

Part Two. Project execution 8

Setting up the project 8

• Getting organized 8

• Project planning 10

• Creating a project plan 11

• Team organization and structure 17

Managing the project 19

• Working with the management team 19

• Working with the client 21

• Working in project teams 22

• Managing time 26

• Project tracking and control 29

Project analysis 34

Part Three. Project completion 41

Project design 41

• Importance of project design 41

• Project design phases 42

• Project lifecycles 43

• Managing the writing 44

Bibliography 47

Introduction

Nowadays, the word project appears as overused. There is a visible tendency of organizing various activities under this umbrella. Could this be just a simple trend? Or is it something special about projects?

Many people are involved in different kinds of projects. A special field is the education. A vital component of the society is represented by the participants to educational activities. Teachers, pupils, students are nowadays involved in many projects.

The relationship between education and development is a two-way road. On one hand, the socio-economic development implies important transformations in educational field, but, on the other hand, the human abilities discovered and enhanced by education offer solutions for the future global problems.

The present paper addresses the organization, development and management of educational projects from a practical point of view. Instead of splitting the theoretical aspects and concrete applications, the structure of this dissertation paper follows the classical phases of any project.

The first part introduces the main idea of the paper, that of realizing a project that helps other projects. A project plan is drafted.

The second part deepens the ideas presented in the first chapter and details specific procedures and techniques applicable to the area of educational projects. The execution phase of our project deals with important issues in project field: setting up, managing and analyzing.

The final part, the completion, resumes the main characteristics of project designing, again insisting on practical issues. Special sections are dedicated to analyzing, evaluating and presenting the results. In the third part we also draw conclusions

We should emphasize on the fact that this paper is intended as a practical approach. The project idea is presented at the beginning but the details are filled in the second and third parts. We should specify that choices of techniques have been made for this specific project. Moreover, in order to simplify the wording we have designated �educational project’ by �project’, especially in the second and third parts of the paper.

Part One

Project Preparation

Company Name and Mission Statement

The name of our company will be Torpeic.

Mission statement

The mission of Torpeic is to provide field leadership in provision of consultancy for Educational sector. The firm’s principle objective is to help the participants to the educational projects to develop projects in a professional manner.

The Team

There are many fields to be covered when speaking about educational projects. Torpeic will have a team formed by specialists in project management and designing, but also young academics and students.

The highly specialized staff will mostly consist of consultants. They will be professors with experience in developing educational projects. They need not to be hired on a permanent basis, but their contribution is crucial. We look for expertise in various educational fields, and we bring to our team

Market Summary

Nowadays we can notice an abundance of project proposals in education. The number of developing projects is highly surpassed by the number of proposals. We expect that in the future the market for educational project to continue to flourish.

In our best knowledge, there are no similar initiatives on the Romanian market. By this we refer to the fact that there is no company that has as a main object of activity similar to ours. However, we might expect for competition in the future, as it is obvious that undertaking projects cannot be done empirically.

We restate out objective that Torpeic should represent the leader in this fresh market.

The Opportunity

There are many people interested in developing educational projects. Even when they have innovative ideas, they frequently try to plan using empirical methods. This strategy proves inadequate, especially when they apply for external financing.

There are many opportunities of financing educational projects. We stress upon the fact that international financing is also available. More important, in order to obtain such

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