Blog Assignment: Estimating Costs and Allocating Resources

Amy's Blog: Estimating Costs and Allocating Resources: This site is to Amy’s Blog Site and it has great great information for Instructional Designers and Project Managers. She included a link to Builder Au and this site gives information on how to create your project budget and where to begin. She has another link for project management and the tools of managing a project. I love this site because all the information on this blog site is everything we are doing in this course and it is extremely helpful. Great job Amy! Thanks for sharing too!

I must say I found another blog site I love and with great information. I think I love these two sites is because it is exactly what we are discussing in this course and I believe it is the same class could or could not be from the same university. http://instructionaldesignvillage.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/estimating-costs-and-allocating-resources-in-instructional-design/ The model this blogger has in his blog to estimate costs and allocating resources is user friendly and I will be using it.

Both the blog sites discusses costs and allocating resources for instructional design how appropriate and the information is very useful for me and I hope you find it useful for you as well.

In this weeks lesson what I like the most and found more interesting was in chapter 7: Estimating and allocating resources and that was the information on: Describing people’s skills and knowledge using the Skill Roster. This roster gives a breakdown of staff primary capabilities, secondary capabilities, and interest. Portny (2008) This is the type of chart most companies and large organizations should use when it comes to job assignments to certain projects.

References:

Amy’s Blog: Estimating Costs and Allocating Resources (2011) Retrieved June 1, 2011, from: http://amysnews.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/estimating-costs-and-allocating-resources/

Life by Design: Estimating Costs and Allocating Resources in Instructional Design ( 2010) Retrieved June 2, 2011, from: http://instructionaldesignvillage.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/estimating-costs-and-allocating-resources-in-instructional-design/

Portny, S., Mantel, S., Meredith, J., Shafer, S., Sutton, M., (2008). Project management: planning, scheduling, and controlling, projects: New York: Wiley Publisher