[kictanet] Day 5 : Ensuring Effective Implementation of the Laptop Project - The Key Variables (Day 5:Wrap up and Way Forward (Key declarations, what next)

[Barrack Otieno]

Thanks, Edith, Ali and Victor, for raising critical issues. Another soft
issue arose in todays newspaper that might need our consideration as well
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000085946&story_title=teachers-vow-to-thwart-state-laptops-scheme
.

Best Regards


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Victor Gathara <vgathara at vimak.co.ke>wrote:

> Barack,
>
> I think its fair to say that most IT projects that fail really do so as a
> result of project management failure so a strong project (or programme?)
> management function needs to be built into this project.
>
> As an example there is the question of quality assurance. How will we
> ensure that the project delivers a quality 'product'? Also how will success
> (or failure) of the project will be measured? I think its important that an
> objective quality assessment be done at regular points in the project
> life-cycle to monitor progress and introduce changes if required.
>
> If it is rolled out as a project then it really must have an end (when the
> project closed down and hands over to the operational regime where laptops
> are just as essential in classroom as textbooks)...It would be important to
> work out what that regime would be...
>
> Victor
>
>
> On 13 June 2013 23:46, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Listers,
>>
>> Many thanks to all who have contributed to this weeks discussion the
>> threads are still open, today we discuss any issues that are significant to
>> the project and that may have been overlooked, the discussion is open.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
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