Managing Your Documentation Projects - Couverture souple

Hackos, JoAnn T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0471590991 ISBN 13 : 9780471590996

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1994

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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 rime-to-market. Dr. JoAnn T Hackos, a top documentation design and project management consultant to major corporations, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard, shores 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 or 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 doily 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471590991
• ISBN 13: 9780471590996
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 656
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible