Translation and Project Management

INTRODUCTION:

The translation profession is remodelling and transforming from service to an industry. The translation industry is pointing to a new skills translators have a deploy if they to act in a context of large translation volumes, faster delivery times, stricter customization demands, and global production teams.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: THE BASICS

The translation project is a life-cycle and we need coordination, teamwork, planning, and control techniques to do it. For control this, we need a project management.

The translation market is facing a dramatic increase and it is certainly true that project management has lately gained a name in the translation profession due, mainly, to market growth and virtual teams.

One definition of project is “… a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a unique product service. Temporary means that every project has a definite end. Unique means that the product or service is different from all similar products or services”.

TRANSLATION WORKFLOW AND OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

The first step in a translation project is the commissioning. It consist to define client’s need, evaluate internal and external constraints that may affect the project’s life cycle, and evaluate alternatives and options.

The next stage is planning. It consists to distribute the resources, think about the time we need for do the project and do this thinking about the adequately coordination between our resources.

The translation phase is the core part of the project and we do this after planning completed satisfactorily.

Finally, the wind-up stage is important because we can’t send a project without a correct revision and detection of any fragments missing and testing of the applications.

IS QUALITY IMPORTANT?

Quality involves all aspects of project management and if we do this correctly, the stakeholders satisfactions is possible.

CONCLUSION

Globalization is the reason why translation has converged towards the area of project management. Translation industry needs to recognize project management aspects because if they don´t, it may result in expensive costs.