In October of 2007, I co-authored an article for Training Industry, Inc. titled "The Training Value Gap." The thesis of the article was that delivering small nuggets of learning incrementally, rather than waiting until the entire learning program was...
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Blackboard Inc. is known primarily as the leading learning management system provider (LMS) in higher education today, but it has also been growing throughout the corporate sector through its Professional Education division that was started in 2005.
In August 2012, my team at DTCC Learning (DTCCL) reconfigured our organizational structure and adopted Agile as our approach to developing learning solutions. We did this in order to address client expectations for instant access to information, frequent...
Imagine that you wanted to lose weight so you decided to start an exercise program. One way to begin could be to research and study all of the best exercise practices and then interview exercise experts after which time you could visit all of the gyms in...
When executives need to transform business and operations, they launch an initiative or project to accomplish their goals. The success of the initiative or project is entirely dependent on the adoption and execution of the new ways of working. Reaching...
The first task that must be accomplished in the Agile methodology is to come up with a list of product features that must be delivered to customers. In Agile, this list is called a product backlog, thus, once the DTCC Learning staff completed Agile...
Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited as stating that "Plans are nothing; planning is everything" in response to how the plans for the D-Day invasion were made useless as a result of the bad weather that occurred on that day. The Eisenhower quote was totally...
Having made the case for the change to Agile, communicating when the change would take place and how it might affect both the organization and the individuals, the next step was to ensure that all of the team members had the tools that they would need to...
Endings and beginnings are more important than middles. This is particularly true in virtual instruction where you are not physically present to excite your audience. Beginning on a high note and ending with a Bang will not happen by accident! You need to...
Change is one of the most difficult components of any leader's job, especially when the change includes adjustments that the leaders themselves must undergo. The management team of DTCCL was unanimous in the belief that in order to better meet the needs...