DDQ framework for courseware design and development

Competency development of employees in large organizations has become very important in current times of extremely volatile business environment. In order to consistently provide its customers and clients the best business solutions, employees of an organization have to be the best in their competencies. A competent team of employees is the foundation of any successful organization. A company will disentangle and fail without employees who perform at high level every day. Hence, a focused approach is the need of the day for competency development of employees covering various aspects of technical, domain, process, project management and soft skills. All skill enablement programs require a structured courseware which may help the employees to learn a given competency in a focused and planned manner. In this paper, we discuss about the importance of courseware design and development during competency development of employees. A series of challenges are argued in this regard followed by a suggested DDQ framework for courseware design and development. Towards the end, we discuss benefits and advantages of this framework for various stake holders involved during the whole exercise.