The key now is determining which projects require more in-depth A&D (&E, if we’re lucky) work and maximizing ROI on both the small and the large projects.

Politics and money will play a big part in most companies in deciding which projects get the funding for the full ADDIE work.

Yesterday, I’m pulled into an emergency phone call. We have a variety of issues that pop up because even though we’ve standardized the use of Articulate to generate E-Learning, our ISDs are maturing in their E-Learning Design skills that they’re now pushing the technical envelope of what you can do with Articulate… to the point where we have a small but pervasive set of repeatable issues with Articulate tracking in the LMS.

Articulate, as a Rapid E-Learning tool, is the gateway… um.. tool to another tool. My people are self-identifying that Articulate can’t be used for every E-Learning situation. I could’ve directed them to a better tool at the same time as I introduced them to Articulate (or instead of it), but without that pain, they would not have learned for themselves the **why**.

The good news is that we’re already on track for a collaborative tool (I’m currently fancying Unison, but I’m still pretty open to suggestions) that can handle a larger array of design requirements.

The whole point is your whole point — it takes time and effort to make something stick. Garbage in… is garbage out.