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