The Importance of Project Management
for Translation Agency
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By Kirill Fedotov,
Managing director
Trans-Project Company
info@trans-project.com
http://www.trans-project.com
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Project management is the whole range of activities to efficiently
achieve a set of goals which includes: calendar and
project planning; communication with clients; coordination
of team members' work; cost control; monitoring progress
of a project; paperwork and accounting; day-to-day
status updates of project progress; problem recognition
and elimination.
Translation project management includes
various linguistic and technical stages such as:
conversion of source files/documents/materials, coordination
of processes in translation, independent editing,
DTP and final proof-reading.
Technological scheme for performance of a translation job usually consists of
the following stages:
- Project preparation, including detailed
calculation of project costs and profits for an
agency.
- Scheduling of the activities that comprise
the project, including delivery schedule for the
whole translation job as well as the deadlines for
its stages.
- Coordination of translation process
and editing.
- Quality assurance: testing and checkout.
- Communication with clients, project
closure, accounting of income and costs of the project.
Very often a rational project management
is a key to success on the market for a translation
agency. The efficient project management allows achieving
high quality and timely delivery of current projects.
For any project manager ineffective management
of the flow of orders may give rise to constant stress
during his working day, which will affect not only
his health, but also the result of work of the whole
translation agency.
Such a situation, given a limited capacity
of human memory, requires the help of computer technologies.
Therefore the automation of order processing in a
translation agency should be based on clear and understandable
computer model. The software Trans-Project
Office may serve as an example of such
computer model which will make your translation project
management easy and practical!
With such software you no longer need to keep a lot
of paper records with entries containing numbers and
dates of invoices/due dates for payment and purchase
orders. You don’t waste time looking for a necessary
file or e-mail address of your client’s contact person.
With this software all information flows are combined,
thus enabling you to respond timely to any changes
in your business environment, as well as to be consistent
in all your actions.
Trans-Project Office
was developed taking into account the experience of small
and large-size translation agencies. This software
product will considerably facilitate the work of translation
services community (project managers, sales managers,
accountants, directors of translation agencies), reduce
the costs of planning, scheduling, control, analysis
and management of business processes inside agencies
saving a lot of time for every party concerned.
Thus, Trans-Project
Office transforms the complex and
many-sided business environment of translation services
into a world with easy-to-grasp, simple and clear
concept of management incorporated into one software
product!
*Trans-Project
Company specializes in software development for translation
agencies (http://www.trans-project.com)
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