Course Overview
This course introduces students to the diverse aspects of managing documentation projects. It teaches the planning skills necessary to develop document outlines, budgets, and schedules, and how to combine this information into document plans, proposals, and contracts. It introduces the project execution skills needed at each stage of the documentation process, and teaches how to track and report project progress. It addresses issues surrounding multi-person documentation teams, such as managing personnel, dividing and delegating work, and establishing effective writing and editing processes. This course also teaches global management skills, including document control, copyright, meetings and presentations. NOTE: This is not a writing course.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand product development and document production cycles.
- Develop document outlines, establish budgets, and create schedules.
- Prepare document plans, proposals and contracts.
- Establish an effective administrative structure.
- Establish document control processes.
- Establish document templates.
- Divide and delegate work.
- Establish and execute multi-person writing and editing processes.
- Manage personnel.
- Collect technical information from diverse sources.
- Manage the documentation process (writing, illustrating, editing, formatting, reviews, translation, publishing, and distribution).
- Manage copyright issues.
- Conduct effective meetings and presentations.
- Track and report project progress.
- Generate invoices.
Effective as of Fall 2008
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