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I'm looking for ideas about team/project-tracking documentation group
managers. Our goal is to institute weekly/monthly reports that each team
member generates. These reports will be compiled into a total team
report (spreadsheet) which can be used to assess percent completion of a
project and as a learning tool for how the team structure and allocation
of resources can be improved (along the lines of the "Creating a
Tracking System" chapter in Hackos' book Managing Your Documentation
Projects).
Questions to managers (and lone writers) who generate reports:
1) What are suggested categories for such a spreadsheet? For example,
* General Systems (computer booting, e-mail sorting, system shutdowns,
report filing, etc.)
For a specific project:
* Research
* Interviews
* Learning the product
* Documentation outline
* First draft creation
* First draft review
* Second draft creation
* Second draft review
* Project management (project notebook maintenance, zipping files, etc.)
* Printing/pdf'ing/
* indexing
* editing
2) What tool/format do you use to have individual members prepare
reports (Excel, etc.) and how do you combine these reports into one
final resource tracking report?
3) Any other thoughts/ideas about project tracking?
4) Does anyone have any sample Excel spreadsheets that they would be
willing to share?
Thanks very much, in advance, for any and all help.
Debbie
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Debbie Pesach
Documentation Specialist
Lynk Ltd.
Teradyon Industrial Park
Misgav, 20179 Israel
+972-4-9907545
dpesach -at- soholynk -dot- com
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