LSCon 2017 LLAMA: Agile Project Management for eLearning 101

Session 108
LLAMA – Agile Project
Management for eLearning
Megan Torrance
TorranceLearning
Orlando, FL • March 22 – 24, 2017

mtorrance@torrancelearning.com
@MMTorrance
@xAPIGnome
@Tlearning
@MyEleventure
linkedin.com/in/megantorrance

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Think about your
best project ever.

"Do more of what works,
& do less of what doesn't."
Kent Beck, author of
Extreme Programming (XP) Explained
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Our projects are complex &
we have to keep up with an
ever-increasing rate
of change.
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Source: Wikimedia Commons
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-110)_(19_April_2002).jpg
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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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Photo credit: ThinkStock 115796521
Squirrel!

Every day you learn
something new about the
project you're working on.
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ANALYZE
DESIGN
DEVELOP
IMPLEMENT
EVALUATE
TIME

Agile is …
An iterative, incremental method
of guiding design & build projects
in a highly flexible & interactive manner,
focusing on maximizing customer value
and fostering high team engagement.
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LLAMA is …
An iterative, incremental method
of guiding instructional design & build projects
in a highly flexible & interactive manner,
focusing on maximizing customer value
and fostering high team engagement.
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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

We are uncovering better
ways of creating learning
experiences by doing it and
helping others do it.
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Through this work we have
come to value:
Individuals and interactions
over
processes and tools
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come to value:
working software
over
comprehensive documentation
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come to value:
customer collaboration over
contract negotiation
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come to value:
responding to change over
following a plan
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WRITE LEARNER
PERSONAS
Use learner personas as a guide to keeping
training design & your project focused.
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How do you choose just one
persona?
• Quantity
• Impact
• Business Risk
• Opportunity
• Degree of Difficulty
• Priority / timing for phases
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DEFINE SCOPE WITH
STORIES
Write learner stories and story cards to define
scope and plan the project.
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Stories capture business
needs and performance
outcomes in a format that's
useful for planning &
production.
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Story Cards 3 Things

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As a
I want
so I can
<who>
<what>
<why>

Use Agile story
mapping for
building tools,
things &
software.
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Use Cathy
Moore's Action
Mapping to define
stories for Agile
learning projects.
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Design a solution to
meet stated needs
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Remove a kidney stone
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Provide verbal
feedback to
teammates
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Collect & enter
data accurately
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Nail roof shingles
safely
Practice in
Training
Business Goal
that solves a
Business Problem
Adapted from: Cathy Moore
Know . . .

PLAN THE WORK
VISIBLY
Prioritize and schedule work
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Define at the
outset what
type of project
this is.
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Zero-Surprises Project
Management
1. Break big things into little ones.
2. Plan from the big to the little.
3. Work from the little to the big.
(if they don’t match, start talking)
4. Make it visual.
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Bottom-up Planning is
based on estimates

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Top-Down Planning:
SME & Reviewer schedules
Holidays
Resource Plans Hard part

WORK ITERATIVELY
until the work is ‘done’
Prioritize and schedule work
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Make small mistakes
faster.
Skip the big mistakes.
Agile Explained, Menlo Innovations
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The
Minimum Viable
Product
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M.V.P.

Why
iterate?
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You always have something
usable.
You catch errors early.
It’s easier to estimate.
It’s psychologically way more
satisfying.

How to
iterate?
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Alpha > Beta > Final
By Project Phase
By Delivery Medium
By level of finish/functionality
By language
By audience

Megan’s Rules for
Iterations
It does real work.
Someone else has to use it.
You gather data.
Data informs the work to do in the next iteration.
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