Project managers will often be asked to estimate the cost or time allocation for training programs. Below are excellent resources that will help you understand the process:
Michael Greer’s PM Resourceswebsite: http://michaelgreer.biz/?p=279
This website contains excellent information on basic rule of thumb when calculating time for an instructional design project. In addition, Michael Greer provides additional resources , techniques and tools for instructional designers and developers in his books and papers. My experience with his material, such as “The Project Management Minimalist: Just Enough PM to Rock Your Projects!” has been exemplary.
Big Dog & Little Dog’s Performance Juxtaposition
Cook, J. How to estimate training time and costs.
The website contains excellent explanation of many aspects of cost estimateing and recourse allocation. Don Clark explains budgeting, training cost guidelines, estimating developments and many other time budgeting resources. In addition, they provide a guideline in the “average design time to create a one hour training program. It also provides a case study and a training cost estimator that can assist in understanding the process.
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Defelice, R.A., Kapp, K.M. Time to Develop One Hour of Training
“Designing training is as much of an art as it is a science. However, that doesn’t mean we should abandon the act of trying to figure out how long it takes to develop an hour of training” (Defelice and Kapp). As instructional designer we cannot forget this. This website contains the result of a survey conducted to provide a basis for how long it takes to develop a one hour of training for different delivery methods. In additional this website contains excellent information about topics we have reviewed during the past few weeks. For Example:
1. Conduct an orientation for the SME and key project stakeholders.
2. Communicate, communicate, communicate.
3. Be prepared to help implement change management.
Hi Elia,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing such great resources, I’ve actually highlighted the first two resources at my post and I find them very useful. I also see Defelice and Kapp survey and their updated article as a great reference for estimating the time required for developing one hour of training. All the best.
Adel