Agile for Instructional Designers: Iterative Project Management to Achieve Results

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Discover Agile for Better Instructional Design
To serve business needs amid greater volatility and uncertainty in the workplace, learning and development professionals need project management methods that can keep up. Enter Agile.
Popular in the software development space as an approach to project management, Agile when applied to instructional design provides a framework for adapting to change as it happens and for delivering the content most needed by learners. Agile for Instructional Designers proposes using Agile methodology to manage training projects and highlights where traditional linear processes have failed the business and the end users.
Recognizing that software development and instructional design have different needs and outcomes, author Megan Torrance developed the LLAMA™ methodology. Her approach adapts the common phases of ADDIE to incorporate the incremental, iterative nature of Agile projects. It allows learners to test and evaluate which features or design functions work before they’re finalized. It also offers a way to accommodate inevitable mid-project modifications pushed by stakeholders, subject matter experts, or organizational leaders.
With templates for goal alignment, learner personas, scope definition, estimating, planning, and iterative development, Agile for Instructional Designers is the resource you need to embrace change in learning and development.

From the Publisher

The ADDIE Workflow

A linear, waterfall-shaped approach to project management fails to incorporate the inevitable changes a project will face and sets up the project team for a struggle to manage those changes.

ADDIE Adapted for Agile

An iterative, incremental approach like Agile accommodates change and offers a framework for meeting project needs while maintaining appropriate control of timeline and budget considerations.

Agile for Instructional Designers

The Lot Like Agile Management Approach, or LLAMA, is an Agile approach adapted specifically for instructional design projects.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Association for Talent Development
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 27, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1949036502
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1949036503
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.07 x 0.48 x 8.87 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #388,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #23 in Agile Project Management #234 in Leadership Training #548 in Human Resources & Personnel Management (Books)
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