Managing Your Documentation Projects

Managing Your Documentation Projects

Practical, authoritative, and the first comprehensive guide to managing every phase of your publication project. The only book devoted exclusively to technical publication project management, Managing Your Documentation Projects arms you with proven strategies and techniques for producing high-quality, extremely usable documentation, while cutting cost and time-to-market. Dr. JoAnn T. Hackos, a top documentation design and project management consultant to major corporations, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard, shares with you the fruit of her more than 15 years of experience in the field. She gives you:
* Clear-cut, rational guidelines to managing every phase of the project from planning and development, through production, distribution, and project evaluation
* Scores of usable templates, checklists, summaries, and forms
* Dozens of real-life case studies and scenarios taken from the author's extensive experience at top corporations
* Techniques applicable to virtually all fields of documentation
Managing Your Documentation Projects was designed to function as a comprehensive guide for new managers and a daily tool of survival for veterans. It is also an invaluable resource for technical writers, editors, graphic designers, consultants, and anyone called upon to produce high-quality technical documentation on time and within budget. JOANN T. HACKOS, PhD, is President of Comtech Services, Inc., an information/design firm in Denver, Colorado and San Jose, California. She is also president of JoAnn Hackos & Associates, Inc., a strategic planning and management consulting firm. In 1993, she served as president of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and is a frequent conference keynote speaker on such topics as quality and usability of products and services, the importance of meeting the needs of the customer, and project management.
Country USA
Brand Wiley
Manufacturer WILEY
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780471590996
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Wiley
Manufacturer	WILEY
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780471590996
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Managing Your Documentation Projects

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