Agile Project Management for E-learning Developments

In this article we outline the project management tactics that we developed in praxis in order to manage elearning projects. We show how our tactics were enhanced through implementing project management techniques from a formal project management methodology. We explain our tactics and techniques in terms of the challenges of managing successful elearning projects in a collegial university environment. We suggest that two key factors have contributed to our project management success. The first is maintaining a clear educational focus in our elearning projects. The second is ensuring that our processes mesh with the university culture particularly in terms of the challenges of working with individual academics. Our paper concludes by discussing the need to engage with institutional strategic and organizational concerns in order to increase institutional capacity for elearning.