Documentation Project Management

Instructional hours: 12

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

You will be evaluated on:

• Assignments 
• Participation in online discussions

To graduate with the Technical Communication Certificate, complete all courses with minimum average grade of B- (70%).

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