Tracking Documentation

["Tara Bowman" <tara -at- orca1 -dot- com>]

I was wondering if any of you brilliant and more experienced writer’s
out there (blatant flattery: check) would happen to have any suggestions
on setting up a system to keep track of current status of several large
documents with multiple authors (statement of problem: check). I have a
few ideas of my own but figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask. Here’s the
description of what I am dealing with:

"It should be some elaboration of a table of the document topics
previewed and the steps taken for each. It should highlight who has been
assigned to do which tasks and any promised scheduled deliverables. One
role of this mechanism is to see that we are on track to finish what we
decide to write and that no one is unduly overloaded during the process;
something simple/straightforward that will give visibility to what has
been assigned to whom, what has been done, and what is left to do with
respect to this set of documentation." 

Is there a particular software that you could use for this? All our
documentation is done in Word--I know that MS Word allows for Master
Documents but I've had problems with that in the past. I was thinking
HTML pages (with hyperlinks to summary pages, etc.) for viewing document
status perhaps...

I’ve searched the archives but couldn’t find anything more recent than
1997 on this one (searched archives: check). Also, I'm on digest mode so
I would appreciate responses (especially any chiding--part of me feels
like I’m making a simple task too complicated) directly to my address.

Thanks for your help!

Tara Bowman
Technical Writer
OR Concepts Applied
tara -at- orca1 -dot- com



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