Skills Assessment: Are You an InfoWrangler? (Part 2 of 6)

Assess your skill as follows:

1	You can describe the task and how it affects the information development process
2	You can describe the process for performing the task
3	You have performed this task for a small project
4	You have performed this task for a medium or large project
5	You have coordinated this task for an entire library of information.

Prepare an information plan
Conduct a needs analysis
Prepare a user-task matrix
Develop business and content objectives for a communication project
Develop usability scenarios for communication products
Develop satisfaction surveys and business measures for communication products and services
Choose an appropriate medium to present information to a given audience
Choose an appropriate genre (form) to present information (such as a user’s guide, catalog, wizard, or reference)
Develop campaigns for communicating to a variety of users in a variety of situations
Design user interfaces
Establish quality standards for a communication project
Choose authoring tools to meet the needs of a communication project within the constraints of the technology infrastructure of the organization.

Consider some of the highlights of this person's experience:

Skill	Use	Evaluation
Developing information to conform to information plans	Wrote a 50-page user's guide according to the specifications in the information plan prepared by the information designer.	3
Communicating in media other than print	Developed a 500-topic help system for a Windows-based application.	4
Develop campaigns for communicating to a variety of users in a variety of situations	Attended a conference presentation about campaign approaches.	2

Continuing the Assessment
1. (previous) Are you an infowrangler? the overview
2. Assess your information design and development skills
3. (next) Assess your technical skills
4. Assess your industry skills
5. Assess your business skills
6. Get the results
Also Future Travels of the InfoWrangler (the article)