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Contents![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Managing Writers is a practical guide to managing documentation projects in the real world; a world where your managers have little interest in what you do, as long as you do it on time, a world where you have to fight for every bit of leverage you can get, a world where you need to understand and manage technology that is unique to documentation, and a world populated with a wildly diverse group of people. The book is informal, but concise, using examples from the author's experience working with and managing technical writers. It provides practical strategies and specific techniques. It looks beyond big project, big team methodologies to the issues faced by smaller, less well-funded projects. Managing Writers is for technical writers, both freelancers and employees, documentation managers, marketing managers and product development managers; anyone who may need to manage, full or part-time, a documentation project. Managing Writers is a “book-in-progress” that is scheduled for publication by the end of 2008. The outline for Managing Writers has three major sections: Leading People, Leading Projects, and Leading Technology:
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