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Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation
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Managing Writers is a practical guide to managing documentation projects in the real world. It is informal, but concise, using examples from the author's experience working with and managing technical writers. 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 freela
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Paperback, 282 pages
Published
January 1st 2009
by XML Press
(first published December 31st 2008)
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The "real-life" in the title is not just for marketing. This book is a no-bullshit introduction to managing a documentation department... from a guy who started out as a documentation manager with no prior tech writing experience. I started reading it to get an outsider's view on the world... and I continued reading it because it is an insightful book that doesn't sugarcoat things and offers solutions to common problems.
Since it was written 10+ years ago, the book is slightly dated in some chap ...more
Since it was written 10+ years ago, the book is slightly dated in some chap ...more

Helpful for managers of technical writing teams, particularly if you don't have a background in technical communication.
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