Clear-cut, rational guidelines to managing every phase of the project from planning and development, through production, distribution, and project evaluationScores of usable templates, checklists, summaries, and formsDozens of real-life case studies and scenarios taken from the author's extensive experience at top corporationsTechniques applicable to virtually all fields of documentationManaging 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.
The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
Technical communication encompasses many subject areas, from computers to medicine to the latest VCR. Technical information is explained by writers, editors, graphic artists, graphic designers, programmers, indexers and managers. This book is a practical, compact text that demonstrates the steps used in starting, maintaining and completing documentation projects in a timely, high-quality fashion.
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