How Long Does It Take

Looking for information to determine how long it takes to design training led me to some very informative sites.  I have included them in my blog this week.

The following links are written by the same person or at least have one author in common both article/blogs were very useful in determining how long will it take to design training.  Even though both state that estimating time associated with cost when designing training isn’t an exacted science, the article, “How long does it take”, did offered some tips.  It used a simple mathematical method by taking an estimate of time used on a previous project’s data; e.g. if “X” took 1 hour then when designing project that include “X” the next time it should be a safe bet that the time would be the same or close to it. 

Kapp, K. (2003) How Long does it take? Estimation Methods for Developing E-Learning. Retrieved from

http://www.astd.org/LC/2003/0703_kapp.htm

 

This article provides some great tips on how to minimize factors that cause projects to become delayed.  I enjoyed reading this article it put things into perspective and provided some factors that can be used to help PM’s remain in control, to help avoid or at least minimize the amount of time wasted.  It stated that some of the reasons for why projects experience some form of delay, doesn’t necessary have to do with the project itself but in fact it’s the client and SME.  The article ends with useful tip on how to minimize this by having the PM take an active role in the issue.

Defelice, R. & Kapp, K. (2009). Time to develop one hour of training. Retrieved from

http://www.astd.org/LC/2009/0809_kapp.htm

This blogs article provides a very informative, detailed process to determine the time/cost of a web project utilizing the top-down process.  It walks you through the five main phase, “define activities, define task, define human resources, and assign human resources to tasks and estimate times and cost.”  In the end offered a simple formula to use to calculate the cost.

Lupetti, A. (2009). Simple process to estimate times and costs in a web project. Retrieved from

http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/02/simple-process-to-estimate-time-and.html

I hope you enjoy these article and find them useful.