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TEACHING
TRANSLATION
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
(TPM)

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Teaching TPM
Very rewarding for the teacher
Very intense for the students

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Variety of cases
Projects
Clients
Participants

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Different types of projects
Documentation
Software
Web sites
Multimedia
Miscellaneous
Very easy Very complex
 Content
 Layout
 Etc.

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Different types of clients
Translation companies
o Small-sized agencies
o Medium-sized companies
o Big international companies
o SLV versus MLV
o CAT developers
o Internet platforms
o Etc.
Direct clients
o Individuals
o Private companies
o Schools
o Public sector
o Institutions
o Etc.
• Various management methods
• Requestors with different profiles
• Different understanding of "translation"
• Etc.

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Different types of project participants
Translators
Revisers
DTP experts
Testers
CAT gurus
QA people
Client validator
TP manager
Etc.

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Important to explain their various:
Roles
Expectations
Concerns

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Project life cyle
1st
contact
Quotation
Analysis
PlanningLaunching
Monitoring
Closing

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Students are very interested
in financial subjects…

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Examples of rates
from various sources
For instance:
translatorsbase.com
(February 2014)

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Examples of rates
from various sources
For instance:
ProZ.com
(February 2014)

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Examples of various price grids
Component Task Unit Price (EUR)
Documentation/
Standard Text
Translation Word 0,17
DTP Page (MS Word) 5
DTP Page (QuarkXPress,
Adobe InDesign)
10
Screenshots Art 6,5
Illustrations Art – simple 10
Illustrations Art – complex, faking 13
Help/HTML Translation Word 0,17
Compilation/testing/
debugging
Hour 40
Software Translation Word 0,25
Compilation/testing/
debugging
Hour 45
Development Hour 65
Example from
English into Croatian
in a global
translation company

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Examples of various quotes
Full localisation
into one
language
From: LSP
To: Commissioner
Quotation Date: 24/02/2014
Project 5784 - ADA 24
Localisation of a Technical Manual
Delivery Date: TBC
English into French
Type Task Volume Unit Price Total EUR
Doc Translation 10,265Word (100%-Rep) 0.0500 € 513.25 €
Translation 2,693Word (Fuzzy - 75%-99%) 0.1000 € 269.30 €
Translation 23,852Word (New) 0.1500 € 3,577.80 €
Illustrations 29Art (simple) 8.5000 € 246.50 €
DTP 185Page (Adobe InDesign) 11.2500 € 2,081.25 €
TOTAL 6,688.10 €
Notes:
Quotation based on the files received on February 24th 2014.
In case of file or update request, this quotation might need to be updated.
Technical tasks

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Ways to define rates
For translation agencies For freelancers
Notions of:
oProductivity
oProfitability
oGross margin

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 What to do
 What to avoid
 Real-life cases
 Potential issues
Extra explanations on:+
Various exercises+
Corrections / Exchange of ideas+

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Similar way of teaching for
EACH MANAGEMENT STEP
of a translation project

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Goals for students:
o Understand the "How to"
o Be able to do it on their own
o Be clear about what is acceptable or not

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Not only for future Translation Project Managers
But also for:
 Translators
 Revisers
 Testers
 DTP experts
 Vendor managers
 Client requestors
 Etc.

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Course constantly updated
Based on new experiences
And market evolution

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