Top Strategies to Avoid a Change of Scope

I’ve been involved in the eLearning industry for quite a while, and I love the constant innovation and new ways to use technology. Ours is an industry that’s constantly changing and updating.

I see change of scope requests over and over again...that never changes. 

You know that sinking feeling when you’ve been chugging along on a project and all of a sudden your boss or your client says “Oh actually, we need to change x, y, and z because (fill in the blank).” 

Perhaps you’ve resigned yourself to these last minute changes being inevitable. But they don’t have to be.

In working with hundreds of clients on thousands of learning development projects, the eLearning Brothers Custom Solutions team has developed a time-tested and proven way to avoid changes of scope. 

Our design team follows seven strategies every time we’re starting a new project.

We won’t kick off a new project until we’ve gotten all these questions answered and made sure everyone is on the same page with project expectations. Our Senior & Lead Project Manager, Laura Doerr recently shared these strategies in a webinar. Since then, we’ve had many requests for a handout or quick reference guide with these tips. 

And you know it’s our mission to help you become eLearning rockstars, so we couldn’t hold out on you. 

Download our “Top Strategies to Avoid a Change of Scope” checklist.

These strategies include:

• thoughtful questions to ask about the key players you’re working with: stakeholders, subject matter experts, etc.
• how to define the success criteria for your project
• the most important questions to ask to determine a realistic project timeline. 

You’ll get concrete tips on how to communicate with clients—or your organization’s stakeholders—and set expectations about how your course development will go and what the end result will be. Check off these 7 tasks before kicking off your project and you’ll be ready to rock.

Go here to download it.

I’d love to hear how it works for you, and if you have any other strategies you use to prevent scope creep and last minute project changes.