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Project Management for Technical Communicators

One challenge that technical writers encounter is project management. For projects that only involve you, you have a great deal of control over the time, cost, and quality. However, as you add additional resources such as other technical communicators, subject-matter experts, reviewers, editors, and approvers, you start having some control challenges. In this interactive session, we’ll discuss some of the project management essentials, tools that you can use, and techniques for avoiding common pitfalls. You will also receive a bibliography for further exploration.

About Our Speaker

Gary DePaul has presented workshops and sessions to more than 700 attendees at conferences, corporation webinars, and association chapter events. He has published professional articles and contributed a chapter to Trainer’s Portable Mentor.

For more than 11 years, Gary has created instructional design and knowledge management techniques, tools, and templates to help professionals improve the quality of their deliverables. He has worked for a variety of businesses as a learning & development director, knowledge manager, and instructional designer. He is the President of the Tampa Bay ISPI Chapter and a volunteer for the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) association.

Gary completed his Ph.D. and Ed.M. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through the Department of Educational Organization and Leadership. He has a B.S. in Philosophy and History from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The ISPI association has designated Gary as a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).