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Subject:Re: books on running a pubs dept From:Stan Dicks <w4ag -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 10 Jun 1998 22:41:59 -0400
Read JoAnn Hackos's Managing Your Documentation Projects, which has a much more
"real-world" orientation. It focuses on project management and says very little
about people management, but it covers project management very thoroughly.
Cheers,
Dr. Stan Dicks
Rhetoric and Technical Communication
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8101
Mark L. Levinson wrote:
> There *are* one or two books on the subject of running a pubs.
> department--I'm curious if anyone has read and can recommend
> any one in particular.
>
> ** I read one called "Managing Documentation Projects in
> an Imperfect World," but the author's idea of an
> imperfect world was utopia compared to the conditions
> I'm used to facing in real life.
>
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