Managing Your Documentation Projects

Hackos, Joann T.

ISBN 10: 0471590991 / ISBN 13: 9780471590996

Editore: Wiley, 1994

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Practical, authoritative, and the first comprehensive guide tomanaging every phase of your publication project. The only bookdevoted exclusively to technical publication project management,Managing Your Documentation Projects arms you with provenstrategies and techniques for producing high-quality, extremelyusable documentation, while cutting cost and time-to-market. Dr.JoAnn T. Hackos, a top documentation design and project managementconsultant to major corporations, including IBM andHewlett-Packard, shares with you the fruit of her more than 15years of experience in the field. She gives you:
* Clear-cut, rational guidelines to managing every phase of theproject from planning and development, through production,distribution, and project evaluation
* Scores of usable templates, checklists, summaries, andforms
* Dozens of real-life case studies and scenarios taken from theauthor's extensive experience at top corporations
* Techniques applicable to virtually all fields ofdocumentation
Managing Your Documentation Projects was designed to function as acomprehensive guide for new managers and a daily tool of survivalfor veterans. It is also an invaluable resource for technicalwriters, editors, graphic designers, consultants, and anyone calledupon to produce high-quality technical documentation on time andwithin budget. JOANN T. HACKOS, PhD, is President of ComtechServices, Inc., an information/design firm in Denver, Colorado andSan Jose, California. She is also president of JoAnn Hackos &Associates, Inc., a strategic planning and management consultingfirm. In 1993, she served as president of the Society for TechnicalCommunication (STC) and is a frequent conference keynote speaker onsuch topics as quality and usability of products and services, theimportance of meeting the needs of the customer, and projectmanagement.

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Titolo: Managing Your Documentation Projects
Casa editrice: Wiley
Data di pubblicazione: 1994
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
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