Significance of Project Planning Mercado Jaydee Joyce D.

MODULE 1: SIGNIFICANCE
OF PROJECT PLANNING
Prepared by:
JAYDEE JOYCE D. MERCADO
Doctor of Education – Educational Management Student
OBJECTIVES
After the discussion, the class will:
Have an overview of the project planning.
Understand the significance of project
planning in education.
OVERVIEW OF PROJECT PLANNING
Project planning involves a series of steps

that determine how to achieve a particular
community or organizational goal or set of
related goals. This goal can be identified in a
community plan or a strategic plan.
Project Planning:
identifies specific community
problems that stand in the way of
meeting community goals.
creates a work plan for addressing
problems and attaining the goals.
describes measurable beneficial
impacts to the community that result
from the project’s implementation.
determines the level of resources or
funding necessary to implement the
project.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Goal: The specific result or

purpose expected from the
project.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Objectives: These are specific

outcomes or results to be achieved
within the proposed project period.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Project: A large or major undertaking

that has a start and end date, is
designed to achieve a goal by
completing objectives and activities,
and includes a budget.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Project Planning: It is the process of

developing a project from
determining the needs and problems
to creating activities and writing a
budget.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Stakeholder: A stakeholder (or

interest group) is someone who
has something to lose or gain
through the outcomes of a project.
WHY IS PROJECT PLANNING IMPORTANT
IN EDUCATION?
It helps in identifying
educational goals and objectives.
It helps in even or effective
distribution of scarce resources.
It aids decision making in
education and is necessary for
administrative decision making
in education.
Effective planning makes
provision for quality
education.
Effective educational planning
enhances investment in human
capital which leads to rapid
national economic growth.
Educational planning
reduces exigencies in the
educational sector. Problems
are anticipated in time and
dealt with appropriately.
Well planned education
enhances literacy and reduces
ignorance among citizens.
Planning gives direction and
guidelines for a country’s
educational system.
WHY IS PROJECT PLANNING
SIGNIFICANT?
1. Strategic Alignment 1. Orderly Process
2. Leadership 2. Continuous Oversight
3. Clear Focus and Objectives 3. Subject Matter Expertise
4. Realistic Project Planning 4. Managing and Learning
5. Quality Control from Success and Failure
6. Risk Management
1. STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT
Project planning ensures what is

being delivered, is right, and will
deliver real value against the
organization’s opportunity.
2. LEADERSHIP
It brings leadership and direction to

projects.
Leadership allows and enables team
members to do their best work.
3. CLEAR FOCUS AND OBJECTIVES
It ensures there’s a proper plan for executing on
strategic goals.
Prevents situations and problems and drive the
timely accomplishment of tasks, by breaking up a
project into tasks for our teams.
4. REALISTIC PROJECT PLANNING
It ensures proper expectations are set

around what can be delivered, by when,
and for how much.
5. QUALITY CONTROL
It ensures the quality of whatever

is being delivered, consistently hits
the mark.
6. RISK MANAGEMENT
Good project management practice requires

project managers to carefully analyze all
potential risks to the project, quantify them,
develop a plan against them, and a contingency
plan should any of them materialize.
7. ORDERLY PROCESS
It ensures the right people do the right

things, at the right time.
8. CONTINUOUS OVERSIGHT
It ensures a project’s progress is

tracked and reported properly.
9. SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE
Project planning is important because someone needs to be
able to understand if everyone’s doing what they should.
Having people with highly- competent in technical
skills and subject matter experts; they’ll know everything
about the work that their teams execute; the platforms and
systems they use, and the possibilities and limitations, and
the kinds of issues that typically occur.
10. MANAGING AND LEARNING FROM
SUCCESS AND FAILURE
It gives learnings from the successes and failures of
the past.
It can break bad habits and when you’re delivering
projects use lessons learned or post project reviews
to consider what went well, what didn’t go so well
and what should be done differently for the next
project.
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION &
RECOMMENDATION
Without Project Planning, teams and clients are
exposed to chaotic management, unclear
objectives, a lack of resources, unrealistic
planning, high risk, poor quality project
deliverables, projects going over budget and
delivered late.
RECOMMENDATION
Great project planning matters

because project planners with great
training deliver success.
RECOMMENDATION
Project planning creates and enables happy,
motivated teams who know their work matters, so do
their best work. And, enabled team to ensure the
right stuff is delivered; stuff that delivers real return
on investment, and that makes happy clients.
PROJECT PLANNING HELPS US TO:
think ahead and prepare for the future

clarify goals and develop a vision identify
issues that will need to be addressed
choose between options consider whether a
project is possible
PROJECT PLANNING HELPS US TO:
make the best use of resources

motivate staff and the community
assign resources and responsibilities
achieve the best results
PROJECT PLANNING HELPS TO ELIMINATE:
poor planning
overambitious projects
unsustainable projects
undefined problems
unstructured project work plans
REFERENCES
 Akpan, C.P., Educational Planning. Retrieved on November 24, 2020 from
https://
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20advance%20those%20goals
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 Introduction to Project Planning and Development. Retrieved on
November 24, 2020 from
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MODULE 1: SIGNIFICANCE

Project planning involves a series of steps

Goal: The specific result or

Objectives: These are specific

Project: A large or major undertaking

Project Planning: It is the process of

Stakeholder: A stakeholder (or

Project planning ensures what is

It brings leadership and direction to

It ensures proper expectations are set

It ensures the quality of whatever

Good project management practice requires

It ensures the right people do the right

It ensures a project’s progress is

Great project planning matters

think ahead and prepare for the future

make the best use of resources

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