Agile Project Management for Elearning
Megan Torrance
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ICELW 2014 | Session #6B
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Megan Torrance
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Mission:
Making the world happier by building competence
and confidence for doing.
My new favorite quote:
“Insanity is a project constraint.”
-- Lou Russell
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Think about your
best project ever.
What factors contributed to its success?
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"Do more of what works, and do less of what
doesn't."
Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming (XP) Explained
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We call it the
Lot Like Agile Methods Approach
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Projects need to keep up with an everincreasing rate of change.
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ANALYZE
DESIGN
DEVELOP
IMPLEMENT
EVALUATE
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It's folly to assume that the client knows
everything they want at the beginning of the
project.
Any set of meaningful requirements is subject to change.
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pot
teapot
coffee
drink
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Motorcycle
Camper
Chopper
RV
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The first day of a project is the worst day to plan
what the end product will be (and how much it
will cost).
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If we do not come up with a brilliant idea that
might change things mid-project, we're not fully
engaged creatively.
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Every day you learn something new about
the project you're working on.
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ADDIE approaches a perfect world in a
highly linear fashion.
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The Agile Manifesto
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THE AGILE MANIFESTO:
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it...
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source: www.agilemanifesto.org
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions
over
processes and tools
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source: www.agilemanifesto.org
Through this work we have come to value:
Working software
over
comprehensive documentation
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source: www.agilemanifesto.org
Through this work we have come to value:
Customer collaboration over
contract negotiation
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source: www.agilemanifesto.org
Through this work we have come to value:
Responding to change over
following a plan
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source: www.agilemanifesto.org
THE LLAMA MANIFESTO
We are uncovering better ways of creating
learning experiences by doing it and helping
others do it.
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Agile is as much an attitude as it is a project
management method.
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ADDIE and Agile are not incompatible.
Agile works with ADDIE on very short
iterations.
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Iteration 1
Iteration 2
A
D
Iteration 3
I/E
D
D
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I/E
D
D
D
PRIMARY LEARNER PERSONA
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Creating a learner persona and identifying initial
user requirements use all your best anthropology
skills.
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There is only one primary learner.
It's kind of like having a prime directive.
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TEAM CHALLENGE:
Write a learner persona for the primary learner in
your project.
E
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STORY CARDS
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Stories capture business needs and performance
outcomes in a format that's useful for planning &
production.
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As a
I want
so I can
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Cards are INVEST-U
I ndependent
N egotiable
V aluable
E stimatable
S mall
T estable
U nderstandable
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LLAMA: Use Cathy Moore's Action Mapping to
define stories for Agile learning projects.
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Know . . .
Practice
!
!
Act!
Respond!
!
Business Goal
Build!
that solves a
Business Problem
!
!
Create!
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Adapted from: Cathy Moore
Decide!
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CHALLENGE:
You’re asked to create training for making a
peanut butter & jelly sandwich.
Action Map it.
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ESTIMATE THE WORK
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Rules for Estimating:
The person who does the work estimates the work
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Rules for Estimating:
Estimate based on what you think it will take to do the work, with no padding.
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An estimate is just that.
An estimate.
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When the estimate is wrong....
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Speak up as soon as you know something is awry.
Say "thank you“.
Understand why.
Figure out what to do next.
Communicate with the client.
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PLAN THE WORK
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Define at the outset what type of project this
is.
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Define at the outset what type
of project this is.
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Organize the project overall in terms of
(bi)weekly goals on a big, visible board.
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Organize weekly work by day and team
member.
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Use colors to indicate status on cards.
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LATHER, RINSE, REPEAT. (Iterate)
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Make small mistakes faster.
Skip the big mistakes.
Agile Explained, Menlo Innovations
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Iteration 1
Iteration 2
A
D
Iteration 3
I/E
D
D
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I/E
D
D
D
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The
Minimum Viable Product
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M.V.P.
Think about it like building a bus.
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You always have something usable.
You catch errors early.
Why?
You don’t get too far off track.
It’s easier to estimate.
It’s psychologically
way more satisfying.
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Iteration 1
Iteration 2
A
D
Iteration 3
I/E
D
D
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I/E
D
D
D
Alpha > Beta > Final
By Project Phase
How?
By Course Medium
By level of finish
By depth of functionality
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When you iterate and do show and tell with the
client & learners, you generate more cards.
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AGILE IN ACTION
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Sometimes you'll join an Agile team.
The #1 complaint:
There's no stable documentation upon which to build training.
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Sometimes you'll join an Agile team.
• Be prepared for constant change
• Accept that the underlying product could (should?) change
• Be sure to include training as part of the story cards
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Educate your clients on how you work with
Agile.
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Agile creates a WDWT (work-directed-work-team)
environment.
Be ready for it.
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Don't be a
scope creep.
Stick to the cards.
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Open room + visual communication = the
room communicates project status
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Agile is a joyful way
to work.
Nothing feels so good as to
actually accomplish something toward a goal every day.
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