Project Management: Sustainable Virtual Education Practices

This project focuses on sustainable project management practices, specifically in the context of virtual education. It emphasizes the importance of environmentally conscious project services and adherence to legal practices. The project outlines the role of a project manager in ensuring sustainability, including adapting to new requirements and integrating digital technologies to enhance student learning. A detailed Gantt chart illustrates the project schedule, encompassing initiation, planning, policy implementation, monitoring, and closure phases. Key aspects covered include project objectives, team recruitment, budgeting, market research, risk identification, and stakeholder management. The project also addresses policy and procedure implementation, resource allocation, and the use of cloud storage and interactive features. Monitoring involves risk implementation, backup plans, and KPI tracking, while the closure phase focuses on feedback and program success. The conclusion highlights the benefits of project management in defining objectives and promoting distance learning, alongside project scope, budget, timeline, and risk assessment. References include various books and journals related to project management and virtual education.

Project sustainable practice
It is to be ensured about the project services which is managed sustainably in order to
more focus on all the activities which cannot harm the environment. Also, there are legal practice
followed by company in order to complete project effectively. Being as projects manger it is to
be ensured about the sustainability when it defects it can be corrected and able to meet new
requirement, future maintenance of digital technology which made easier life of student also
changing the environment by promoting digital learning this is one of the common practice
which can be conduct in the situations like pandemic.
Project schedule
Gantt chart
Task Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
virtual delivery of education 144 days Fri 6/10/22 Wed
12/28/22
1 Project initiation 29 days Fri 6/10/22 Wed 7/20/22
1.1 Aim and objectives 2 days Fri 6/10/22 Mon 6/13/22
1.2 Recruiting project team 5 days Tue 6/14/22 Mon 6/20/22 3
1.3 Budget 3 days Tue 6/21/22 Thu 6/23/22 3,4
1.4 quality 3 days Tue 6/21/22 Thu 6/23/22 4
1.5 scope 2 days Fri 6/24/22 Mon 6/27/22 5
1.6 constraints 1 day Tue 6/28/22 Tue 6/28/22 6,7
1.7 developing business case 2 days Wed 6/29/22 Thu 6/30/22 8,7
1.8 feasibility study 5 days Fri 7/1/22 Thu 7/7/22 9
1.9 student portal 2 days Fri 7/8/22 Mon 7/11/22 10
1.1 software developer 2 days Tue 7/12/22 Wed 7/13/22 10,11
1.11 advisor 1 day Thu 7/14/22 Thu 7/14/22 12
1.12 equipment of online material 2 days Fri 7/15/22 Mon 7/18/22 13
1.13 training team for teachers 1 day Tue 7/19/22 Tue 7/19/22 14
1.14 managing stakeholder 1 day Wed 7/20/22 Wed 7/20/22 15
2 Project planning 47 days Thu 7/21/22 Fri 9/23/22
2.1 Market research 1 day Thu 7/21/22 Thu 7/21/22 15,16
2.2 hire digital marketing team 12 days Fri 7/22/22 Mon 8/8/22 18
2.3 Build the timeline 4 days Tue 8/9/22 Fri 8/12/22 19
2.4 Financial resources 1 day Mon 8/15/22 Mon 8/15/22 19,20
2.5 add milestones 2 days Tue 8/16/22 Wed 8/17/22 21
2.6 volunteer 2 days Thu 8/18/22 Fri 8/19/22 22
2.7 list of deliverable 4 days Mon 8/22/22 Thu 8/25/22 23
2.8 identifying risk 4 days Fri 8/26/22 Wed 8/31/22 24
2.9 roadmap for stakeholder 5 days Thu 9/1/22 Wed 9/7/22 25

2.1 Policy and procedures 12 days Thu 9/8/22 Fri 9/23/22 25,26
3 Implementation 47 days Mon 9/26/22 Tue 11/29/22
3.1 Contracting license 10 days Mon 9/26/22 Fri 10/7/22 27
3.2 Roles and responsibility 1 day Mon
10/10/22
Mon
10/10/22 29
3.3 Resource distributions 5 days Tue 10/11/22 Mon
10/17/22 30
3.4 module of teaching 4 days Tue 10/18/22 Fri 10/21/22 31
3.5 execute the plan 5 days Mon
10/24/22 Fri 10/28/22 31,32
3.6 analyzing project data 10 days Mon
10/31/22 Fri 11/11/22 33
3.7 chat section for interaction 2 days Mon
11/14/22 Tue 11/15/22 33,34
3.8 feedback section for student 1 day Wed
11/16/22
Wed
11/16/22 35
3.9 learning materials 4 days Thu 11/17/22 Tue 11/22/22 36
3.1 provide cloud storage 5 days Wed
11/23/22 Tue 11/29/22 36,37
4 Monitoring 11 days Wed
11/30/22
Wed
12/14/22
4.1 Risk implementation 1 day Wed
11/30/22
Wed
11/30/22 38
4.2 Backup plan 5 days Thu 12/1/22 Wed 12/7/22 40
4.3 assessment application 3 days Thu 12/1/22 Mon 12/5/22 40
4.4 incorporation of user 1 day Thu 12/8/22 Thu 12/8/22 41
4.5 student interaction 1 day Tue 12/6/22 Tue 12/6/22 42
4.6 KPI 4 days Fri 12/9/22 Wed
12/14/22 43
4.7 success factor 1 day Fri 12/9/22 Fri 12/9/22 43,44
5 Closure 10 days Thu 12/15/22 Wed
12/28/22
5.1 Feedback 5 days Thu 12/15/22 Wed
12/21/22 46,45
5.2 Success of program 3 days Thu 12/22/22 Mon
12/26/22 48
5.3 testing 2 days Tue 12/27/22 Wed
12/28/22 49

CONCLUSION
It has been concluded that project management help to define the objective of project in
order to complete on time. Present project based on virtual delivery which provide digital
learning to student in order to promote distance learning. Then, study will highlight the project
scope, budget, timeline, deliverable and milestones, project success criteria etc. in order to
complete the project effectively. Project also covered scope, objective in order to identify the
completion of projects successfully. Then, risk assessed for project in order to complete the
project successfully. Further, all the practice is successfully managed in order to maintain project
procurement plan.

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