Commentary 2 Analytic Review of Managing Your Documentation Projects Anthony Benedictis Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 JoAnn T. Hackos's Managing YourDocumentation Projects provides publication team members with the ability to construct and utilize a sound publication-development process. She gives team members ammunition for confronting the host of issues that arise during the quest to create high-quality publications. This review examines Hackos's process from the viewpoint of a technical writer seeking to utilize its concepts to better understand the role writers play on publication teams and in organizations as a whole. Writers will find that an understanding of Hackos's development process can aid them in substantiating their role and improving their professionalism and competency. Following a five-phase model of publication development The book's structure is based on Hackos's model of publication development. She breaks the development process into five phases. Each section of the book describes a different phase. The reader immediately recognizes that planning is an essential component of the development model. The first two phases are planning-based; Hackos suggests that about 30% of total project time be spent on these phases (p. 29, p. 225). The first phase is devoted to information planning. Hackos believes that the
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Analytic review of Managing Your Documentation Projects
Benedictis, Anthony
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 20 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 1996
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