From the course: Instructional Design: Working with SMEs
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Kickoff call: Building a schedule
From the course: Instructional Design: Working with SMEs
Kickoff call: Building a schedule
Building a project schedule is one of the most important goals of your phone call, as the schedule determines whether you go somewhere quickly or nowhere slowly. You can see I filled in some basics here, and you'll want to use this doc to be your guide for the schedule in its entirety. Since you've already talked to your smee about their availability, and any major events on the calendar, this is fairly easy to implement. There are four steps I use to make scheduling a painless, repeatable process. The first step is determining your ship date, and working backwards to determine how long you have to complete your project, and what your start date will be. For example, let's say Jeff needs his course available by November first, just in time for that holiday shopping customer service crunch. To be sure we hit that date, I'd actually back it up further than the first, and give myself a buffer of five to ten days before that to make sure we're finished, so let's say we want to be done by…
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