The aim of the research is to classify the problems of school managers and teachers working in the educational organizations in Elazig during the project preparation and implementation processes according to the project cycle management stages and to find solutions for these problems. The study was carried out according to the situation analysis technique that is one of the qualitative research methods. As data collection tool, semi-structured interview form created by the researcher was used. The sample group of the study consisted of 50 school managers and teachers who worked in different grades of educational organizations in Elazig. During the data analysis process, the answers of the sample group for the questions in the interview form were subjected to content analysis; frequencies and percentages were calculated. The results of the study indicate that: (1) the processes of project preparation and implementation gain experience, support cooperation among colleagues and students; (2) the most frequently encountered problems during the stage of preparing project ideas are defining original subjects and doubting on whether the subjects are functional or not; (3) in the project implementation stage, there may be some problems deriving from not having adequate information about project techniques; and (4) a great number of the participants declared that educators need to get detailed training on projects in order to solve the problems encountered during project preparation and evaluation processes. [This paper was published in "Journal of Education and Social Sciences" v49 n225 p129-152 2019.]