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Practical Change Management for IT Projects

By : Emily Carr
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Practical Change Management for IT Projects

By: Emily Carr

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Practical Change Management for IT Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Planning for training development


Training development takes a long time and can involve a lot of people. This is an area where most projects underestimate the amount of time and effort involved. At a high level, the standard training development process looks like this:

This process looks deceptively simple. After all, it's only eight steps. How long can it take? I typically advise projects to use the following development-to-delivery ratios when planning how long it will take to develop a training course:

  • Fully interactive e-Learning: Plan on 200 hours of development time for each hour of finished training. Yes, that is five full weeks. I know that right now you're thinking I'm completely off the mark and you're already mentally cutting that number to about 20 hours. Don't. That number is accurate.

  • Semi-interactive e-Learning: Plan on 100 hours of development time for each hour of finished training.

  • Instructor-led classroom training: Plan on 40 hours of development time for each hour of...