Agile Methodology for Developing & Measuring Learning
Training Development for Today’s World
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Consider the impact to today’s customers if they had to wait two years to tweet the contents of a web page simply because the company that built the browser had delayed updates until they could also build a code that allowed users to post to Facebook and Google+. Agile not only provides software developers with a methodology that supports incremental releases, it also accommodates for the quick and nimble change of the high-tech world in which we live. As a result, we all glean the benefits of frequent fixes and increased functionality. Applying this analogy to training allows the new manager, who needs to quickly develop leadership skills, the ability to master the skill of chairing a meeting even if the component of the curriculum that teaches how to navigate the company’s culture hasn’t yet been built. The implications are: this new manager (and his or her company) can immediately benefit from one component of the training even though the entire learning program isn’t finished. This allows the company to receive incremental value from the training, therefore, reducing the training value gap. When training content is developed and delivered the Agile way, companies and trainees can both realize the benefit of learning solutions sooner, not later.
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About the Book
This book can help transform your training development methodology into one that allows you to rapidly respond to ever changing business needs. It will teach you how to deliver learning solutions that are both timely and effective. It will introduce you to a flexible development technique, one that allows you to keep pace with fast changing business conditions. It will show you how to achieve better collaboration with your business partners. It will help you create empowered, self-organizing, cross functional teams that can distill large training efforts into smaller components that can then be developed and delivered over multiple iterations. Finally, this book will help you assess if the organizational structure of your training department is optimized to support the needs of your company.
About the Author
A“fresh voice among the usual author/guru crowd...” who “...brings the credibility of someone who makes a living DOING, rather than TELLING,..”is how Kevin Kurse (The e-Learning Guru) describes Kaliym Islam. This pioneer in the application of business and technology trends to learning programs has the unique ability to identify the connections between business trends, technology and learning, and to facilitate the organizational change required to implement the required solutions. Teams under Mr. Islam’s direction have won International STC awards for innovative learning content, been cited by Josh Bersin as a best practice learning organization, and named finalists in the Chief Learning Officer Learning Elite program. Mr. Islam is the author of two books – Developing and Measuring Training the Six Sigma Way and Podcasting 101 for Trainers, a contributing author to The HR Handbook, Prussience in Six Sigma DUNDU, and The German e-Learning Handbook, and a featured blogger for Training Industry Inc. Kaliym can be reached at kislam@thetrainingpro.net, or you can follow him on twitter @thetrainingpro.