TRANSLATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Translation Project Management

• First Contact with Clients

• Receiving a New Project
• Project Analysis
• Project Types
• Project Components
• Production Stages
• Necessary Resources
• Preparing the Estimate & Project Plan
• Launching the Project
• Monitoring the Project
• Completing Production
• Post-Mortem
• Archiving the Project

• Role of the Project Manager
• Benefit for Translators
• Author's Note

• Feedback

Role of the Project Manager

In conclusion, the role that the project manager plays is essential, particularly in large-scale projects and in projects involving many components. Those who hold this role are unlikely to have all of the special knowledge necessary for all of the stages mentioned here, but they must have enough skills to correctly identify the fundamental tasks via a proper analysis, establish a budget with a respectable margin, plan the proper steps, select adequate resources, monitor the project, and deliver the necessary components to their client.

Of course, communication skills are also essential. One of the main objectives of a project manager is to act as an inside contact for the client and to serve as an intermediary between the many people involved. A project manager must also exercise great care in communicating instructions and transferring information between everyone involved.

Copyright: ©Nancy Matis - 2006

Publication:
Matis, Nancy. 2005. La gestion de projets de traduction et sa place dans la formation de traducteurs, Équivalences, number 32/1 2005 - "La traduction à l'heure de la localisation" HEB, Haute École de Bruxelles, 47-62.