Agile for Instructional Designers: Iterative Project Management to Achieve Results

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(TM) 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.

Author: Megan Torrance
Publisher: ASTD
Published: 08/27/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781949036503
ISBN10: 1949036502
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Project Management
- Business & Economics | Training
- Computers | Programming | General

About the Author
Megan Torrance is the chief energy officer of TorranceLearning. She brings over a decade of business consulting and project management experience to her instructional design and development work. Not only does Megan facilitate LLAMA and instructional design workshops, but she also supports TorranceLearning clients with project kickoffs to make sure each project has clear direction. She is devoted to delivering outstanding work to clients and creating a top-notch work environment based on trust, flexibility, compassion, and fun.