This course aims to enhance your basic theoretical and practical knowledge of Project Management. It targets teachers of translation as well as professional translators who want to learn more about Project Management with a view to using this knowledge in their work. The information presented in this course will help the translators, both in-house and freelancers, to better understand the translation process as a whole and be able to understand the role they occupy in this process.

By the end of this course you should have acquired basic theoretical concepts and principles of project management in general and project management for translators in particular. Specifically, you should understand: what is meant by project and project manangement; the differences between objectives, tasks, and processes; what a translation project is, what type of translation projects there are; what the phases of a project are, which resources are required and how project management is influenced by different work scenarios.

No previous knowledge of project management is presupposed for this course, except for basic ICT knowledge, which you can test in the relevant courses on ICT Skills on the eCoLoTrain website.

Note: Please bear in mind that certain sections from PM Course II also apply to PM Course I. In those cases, cross references are provided as internal links. Click on the highlighted key word to follow the links and then return to Course I by using the Back button in your browser.

The PM Course I is divided into two sections:

1. Basics

In this first section the following basic concepts on project management are defined:

• Project
• Project manangement
• Objectives
• Tasks
• Processes

2. Translation Projects

This section is devoted to the must-have knowledge when managing translation projects:

• Types of projects (documentation, software, websites, multimedia)
• Project phases (linguistic, technical)
• Resources (linguistic, technical, other)
• Work scenarios (freelancer, freelancer team, translation company, translation agency, translation department)

Finally, we hope this course will be easy to use and that it will contribute to broadening your theoretical and practical knowledge of Project Management. Since we try to constantly improve our courses, we would appreciate it if you could leave us feedback by filling in the questionnaire on the link at the end of this course. Thank you!

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