by JoAnn T. Hackos, Ph.D.
John Wiley & Sons, 629 pages

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 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

If you are a publications-project manager, you will find much food for thought, as well as specific procedures, in this book. If you are responsible for managing your own projects as an independent contributor, you will find a great deal to get you started toward improving the quality of your management activities. If you are a publications manager who is responsible either for managing projects directly or for training and supervising those who manage projects, you will find new ideas about the "people" part of the publications project.

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.

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