Comments on: How long does it take to develop one hour of training? http://onlignment.com/2009/09/how-long-does-it-take-to-develop-one-hour-of-training/ The art of online communication Sun, 20 May 2012 01:59:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: Scott Hewitt http://onlignment.com/2009/09/how-long-does-it-take-to-develop-one-hour-of-training/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Scott Hewitt Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:18:34 +0000 http://onlignment.com/?p=352#comment-36 <p>I've read a number of articles recently about the time taken to prepare an hour. In all cases its important to think about the tool being used and at a very basic level is it custom development or rapid style?</p> <p>80 hours could be seen as 10 day working days. Reading, designing, coding, testing, client revisions, phone calls, meetings etc. it could take 80 hours just as easily as it could take 20.</p> <p>In creative industries such as e-learning I think that is very difficult to assess how long something takes unless you are able to take a true comparision. I'd be interested for someone to take a script/course and prepare several versions of the course in a number of different tools - all for the same client. This was we can get a true idea of the actual development time and also the time taken to refine the requirement.</p> <p>Liz also makes a good point about quality? A notoriously difficult thing to quantify but important when looking at a report like this one.</p> I’ve read a number of articles recently about the time taken to prepare an hour. In all cases its important to think about the tool being used and at a very basic level is it custom development or rapid style?

80 hours could be seen as 10 day working days. Reading, designing, coding, testing, client revisions, phone calls, meetings etc. it could take 80 hours just as easily as it could take 20.

In creative industries such as e-learning I think that is very difficult to assess how long something takes unless you are able to take a true comparision. I’d be interested for someone to take a script/course and prepare several versions of the course in a number of different tools – all for the same client. This was we can get a true idea of the actual development time and also the time taken to refine the requirement.

Liz also makes a good point about quality? A notoriously difficult thing to quantify but important when looking at a report like this one.

]]> By: clive http://onlignment.com/2009/09/how-long-does-it-take-to-develop-one-hour-of-training/comment-page-1/#comment-34 clive Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:12:31 +0000 http://onlignment.com/?p=352#comment-34 <p>Duly confirmed.</p> Duly confirmed.

]]> By: Help! http://onlignment.com/2009/09/how-long-does-it-take-to-develop-one-hour-of-training/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Help! Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:24:33 +0000 http://onlignment.com/?p=352#comment-33 <p>Based on a recent vendor contract my government agency signed with a vendor to develop a text-based page turner, one hour of eLearning takes 383 hours to develop at a cost of $116/hour (yes, that's $44,606 for one hour of HTML page-turning goodness).</p> <p>Please confirm my fears that we're getting royally screwed?</p> Based on a recent vendor contract my government agency signed with a vendor to develop a text-based page turner, one hour of eLearning takes 383 hours to develop at a cost of $116/hour (yes, that’s $44,606 for one hour of HTML page-turning goodness).

Please confirm my fears that we’re getting royally screwed?

]]> By: Liz Preedy http://onlignment.com/2009/09/how-long-does-it-take-to-develop-one-hour-of-training/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Liz Preedy Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:57:53 +0000 http://onlignment.com/?p=352#comment-32 <p>Fascinating! A need to meet higher expectations of learners, deliver at better standard, in 2009 than in 2003 might be a partial explanation. Different modes of recording time spent by developers and accuracy of perception of how time is spent might come into it. Not a fatuous remark! It was not a scientific study and the variables may not all be directly related to the issues the survey was intended to study. And, as the analysis acknowledges the number of respondents to the survey was small.</p> <p>Nevertheless it seems reasonable to assume that the trends indicated by the numbers have some validity and, it is not just the time spent developing live web-based training that seem (unacceptably) high to me.</p> Fascinating! A need to meet higher expectations of learners, deliver at better standard, in 2009 than in 2003 might be a partial explanation. Different modes of recording time spent by developers and accuracy of perception of how time is spent might come into it. Not a fatuous remark! It was not a scientific study and the variables may not all be directly related to the issues the survey was intended to study. And, as the analysis acknowledges the number of respondents to the survey was small.

Nevertheless it seems reasonable to assume that the trends indicated by the numbers have some validity and, it is not just the time spent developing live web-based training that seem (unacceptably) high to me.

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