Development and Implementation

We talked about in our presentation how the analysis phase made things go much more smoothly and faster. I'd say that was one of the greatest lessons to take from the design and the development phase. Even though out analysis wasn't perfect, it really set the direction for the rest of the project. So development was generally easy, and we were pretty much able to just put together what we'd planned.

I somewhat wish there was something we could do more for implementation. However, with our project, implementation would take at least 9 hours, so it wasn't exactly something we could do in class. Another thing I noticed about our implementation was that our instructor could be considered a content specialist. That makes a huge difference in our implementation in that we were able to really leave a lot more open to the instructor. If we took a random person off the street, we would have scripted out the entire process and still wouldn't be able to have them assess the quality of the final product. However, with our knowledgeable instructor, we gave general guidelines and left the rest up to them. I felt that it was important to strike a balance, because no directions could give us completely different results with every training, and too much direction could lead to resentment on the part of the instructor or at least a desire to not add anything meaningful to the training. So we stayed somewhere in the middle, giving the instructor guidelines, but allowing some individuality. Hopefully, my redundancy made this point clear.