What is Product Increment

This chapter presents a visible, explicit, and reusable risk-driven knowledge capture model that defines a process for supporting collaborative online course creation. The model defines the structure and use of a knowledge base of risks and heuristics for risk mitigation specific to transitioning courses to online. The instantiation of the model with known risks and heuristics is the end result of collaboration that takes place among a community of practitioners which includes experienced online instructors, instructional designers, and subject experts. Experienced practitioners hold within their established mental models of instructional design the theory behind such design. This theory consists of the knowledge behind decisions affecting success or difficulty and heuristics established regarding online course design. Without explicit capture of this knowledge, theories expressing mental models of successful design are lost when expert practitioners leave an organization. This presented model defines a structure and method for the capture and reuse of this knowledge.