Project Management and the Technical Communicator: Why It Works

By Liz Herman | Senior Member As a long-time technical communicator, the role I play as a project manager and the reasons why I succeed in project management make perfect sense to me. To others, however, the connection is not so clear. The skills that we refine over time as technical communicators have a critical place in project management. In addition to the actual act of communicating content skillfully, technical communicators work to understand what the users need and how the users prefer to access and consume information. At a microscopic level, we intimately understand the role formatting plays in… Read the rest