Translation management

Intensive seminar on translation management

Globalisation, cost pressure, increasing quality specifications, shorter runtimes and more languages and variants are continuously raising the requirements in translating. Enormous benefits are to be gained by applying a well-structured and systematic approach. This seminar will provide you with the tools of the trade and knowledge of the more specialised functions.

In this seminar, you will learn

• the factors critical to success and characteristics of translation management
• how to deal with multilingual production in an integrated and strategic manner
• how to best bring together the processes, technology and players in translation
• how to eliminate pitfalls regarding cost, time and quality
• how to construct flexible and sustainable structures for the whole production process

Target group
The seminar is aimed at anyone responsible for or running translation projects. This includes specialists and managers at client companies and translation service providers, translation project coordinators, project managers and heads of translation departments. This seminar is similarly aimed at translators and strategic partners involved in translation projects.

Tutors
Isabelle Fleury, Frank Fleury

Course location
DSC Training Center, Joachimstaler Strasse 17, 3rd floor, 10719 Berlin
The training course is provided in association with Fleury & Fleury GbR.

Duration
2 days

Cost
€750,00 excl. VAT, incl. lunch and seminar documents

Translation project management

Translation projects are often complex. As the number of languages and media types grow, so does the size of the project team. Numerous technologies are used. This increases the number of work stages and people involved. Deadline and cost pressure usually exacerbate matters too.
This is where your knowledge as a project manager is required! You not only need to monitor and direct the structural planning and progress of your projects. To achieve maximum productivity, you must also ensure that you have the support of management, colleagues and clients and coordinate various interests. This seminar will provide you with the correct tools for the job. Enhance your leadership and communication skills in order to handle all translation projects confidently!

In this seminar, you will learn

• the factors critical to success and characteristics of translation projects
• how to deal with translation projects in an integrated and strategic manner
• how to apply the correct techniques and tools to your projects efficiently
• how to create successful communication structures
• how to handle conflict situations in translation projects competently
• about quality assurance and project closure

Target group
The seminar is aimed at anyone responsible for or running translation projects:
Fach- und specialists and managers at client companies and translation service providers; translation project coordinators, project managers and heads of translation departments; translators and strategic partners in translation projects.

Tutor
Isabelle Fleury

Location
DSC Training Center, Joachimstaler Strasse 17, 3rd floor, 10719 Berlin.
The training course is provided in association with Fleury & Fleury GbR.

Duration
2 days

Cost
€750,00 excl. VAT, incl. lunch and seminar documents

Terminology management

Whatever their size, companies are becoming increasingly aware of the necessity and advantages of using terminology consistently. How is this done?

This seminar teaches the theory behind successful terminology management. It shows the benefits, effects and obstacles. Practical solutions are given on how to create company-specific terminologies systematically. Using this as a basis, we look at the main aspects in detail and address specific issues from an editor’s and translator’s point of view.

Course contents
You will become familiar with the objectives, with what is required for a successful project and with the concepts of terminology management. This then enables you to assess how these will affect the process of creating the text content. You will get a good understanding of how the organisational structure, processes and technology are put into effect.

Target group
Managing directors, managers and staff responsible for marketing and documentation.

Tutors
Isabelle Fleury and Frank Fleury

Location
DSC-Schulungscenter, Joachimstaler Straße 17, 3rd floor, 10719 Berlin.
The training course is provided in association with Fleury & Fleury GbR.

Course duration: 1 day, dates on request

Cost
€750.00 excl. VAT, incl. lunch and seminar documents

Translating & localising TYPO3 websites  

More and more companies are creating their websites using the free web content management system, TYPO3. It can provide almost all the features needed for a multilingual, international website.
Nevertheless, website developers and translation service providers face great challenges when localising and translating TYPO3 websites. The main issues are internationalisation, content management, translation workflows and interfaces to translation tools.
This course shows how TYPO3 websites can be successfully translated and adapted to the requirements of the local market.

In this seminar, you will learn

• how to set up and manage a simple website with TYPO3
• how to prepare a TYPO3 website for multilingual localisation
• how to effectively organise the localisation process with your translation partners by connecting to leading translation memory systems
• how to best set up translation memory systems for TYPO3 content

Target group
Project managers working in translation and localisation as well as TYPO3 website planners and developers; specialists and managers at client companies and translation service providers; translators with relevant previous knowledge

Tutor
Daniel Zielinski

Training location
DSC-Schulungscenter, Joachimstaler Straße 17, 3. Etage, 10719 Berlin

Duration
1 day, dates on request

Cost
€390.00 excl. VAT and incl. break-time drinks and seminar documents