The June meeting is on Wednesday, June 16, 2004, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the London Wine Bar in San Francisco's financial district. For details about the meeting location and instructions for purchasing tickets, see http://www.stc-sf.org/stc-meetings.htm.

About the Presentation

Increase your job satisfaction and your value to your company by improving your project management skills.

When I ask technical communicators to describe themselves, they almost always identify their writing, tool, design or technology skills. But when I ask them why projects succeed or fail, effective or ineffective project management practices lead the list of reasons they give.

Technical communicators have a unique set of skills to be effective project managers. By improving your project management skills, you can advance your career, improve the quality of your work, and increase your job satisfaction.

With this presentation, I want to explore our understanding of how important project management is to our success as technical communicators. I will describe some of the most important project management practices as they relate to technical communicators, share resources for project managment training and certification, and discuss aspects of project management you feel are most important to your daily work.

About the Speaker

Tim Bombosch is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) who has been teaching, publishing, and managing projects for over 15 years. He specializes in developing communication solutions for enterprise software systems, including help systems, guides for end-users, system administrators, and software developers, as well as GUI design, wizards, and training materials.

Before becoming a technical communicator, Tim completed his PhD at Stanford Univerisity, where he wrote about film, theater, and philosophy of the Weimar Republic and Third Reich.

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