Tech Biz Writing

You will now need to prepare a work schedule to estimate the time likely to be needed for each step in the process. The main variable will be the number of times an author will have to go through each loop. Experience should give some indication here, but if not, it is certainly a wise practice to build in a contingency for perhaps two or even three trips around the course. An alternative would be to set a limit to this procedure, in agreement with the client, ensuring that some sort of draft is produced to time.

A straightforward time-based chart may then be constructed. For large-scale projects involving a number of volumes, the Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), or the Critical Path Method (CPM) may be used. There is a lot of good software available now in this field. Approach a good supplier or, as usual, write to the Microsoft Campus in Reading. A general discussion of network analysis as these methods are called is given elsewhere under: Additional Subject Matter.

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