Agile for Instructional Designers
Megan Torrance is the chief energy officer of TorranceLearning, a company that specializes in e-learning design and development. Megan offers a passion for design quality to her project management based on her more than two decades of expertise in change management, instructional design, and business consulting. Torrance Learning is headquartered just outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
To meet corporate needs in an environment of increased volatility and uncertainty, learning and development professionals want project management methodologies that can keep up. Here comes Agile.
Agile, which is popular in the software development industry as a project management approach, when applied to instructional design provides a framework for reacting to change as it occurs and delivering the material most needed by learners. Agile for Instructional Designers recommends using Agile approach to manage training programs and identifies areas where traditional linear procedures have failed the company and end users.
Author Megan Torrance created the LLAMATM methodology after recognizing that software development and instructional design have different needs and outputs. Her approach modifies the standard ADDIE phases to accommodate the gradual, iterative character of Agile projects. It enables students to test and assess which features or design functions are functional before they are finished. It also allows for the inevitable mid-project changes requested by stakeholders, subject matter experts, or organizational leaders.
Agile for Instructional Designers is the resource you need to embrace change in learning and development, including templates for goal alignment, learner personas, scope definition, estimating, planning, and iterative development. It is one of the best books on Agile project management.
Author: Megan Torrance
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