Documentation Project Management

After completing this course, you’ll be able to do the following:

• Identify key characteristics of your audience that will impact your documentation project
• Gather requirements and design documentation that suits the needs of your readers
• Perform specific project management tasks:
  • Plan the documentation content
  • Identify the resources and tools needed to develop the documentation
  • Create a project schedule
  • Create a project budget
  • Explain the principles of managing a project team

• Prepare to spend 15–20 hours per week on coursework
• Expect reading and other assignments on a weekly basis
• Plan to access the course at least once every few days to keep up with your work and assignments

No textbook is required. We will provide all course materials online.

Recommended reading:

The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition. University of Chicago Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0226287058

Note: Courses use the author-date style from the Chicago/Turabian (17th ed.) citation guide.

Once you begin the course you’ll be sent SFU library access information for this text. Alternatively, you may wish to access a 30-day free trial of the online version of Chicago Manual of Style.

This course requires:

• High-speed internet access
• Adobe Acrobat Reader

To get the most from this course, you should be comfortable with the following MS Word and/or Google Docs functions:

• Using Paragraph styles
• Working with headers and footers
• Tracking changes and accepting or rejecting changes 
  
• Inserting a table of contents, media
• Sharing documents