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Nothing, really
Generally, my customers do all that troublesome project management stuff - which takes a big burden off me.
They present me with a delivery schedule and we both work to see if it is viable. If it isn't, we both adjust it as we go along and pass through the various stages of the project. This worked just fine in my last 4-month automobile repair manual project.
Otherwise, I'll just make an enlarged copy of a calendar, write in lines and arrows leadi... See more Nothing, really
Generally, my customers do all that troublesome project management stuff - which takes a big burden off me.
They present me with a delivery schedule and we both work to see if it is viable. If it isn't, we both adjust it as we go along and pass through the various stages of the project. This worked just fine in my last 4-month automobile repair manual project.
Otherwise, I'll just make an enlarged copy of a calendar, write in lines and arrows leading up to significant milestones and mark off each day with a 2B pencil. Simple, isn't it!  ▲ Collapse
| | | | Mary Worby 
Обединето Кралство
Local time: 07:07
Член
германски на англиски
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Maybe I've never had a project big enough to require planning, but I've never seen the need for a planning tool. Having said that, projects can, to a certain extent, be managed in Trados anyway, so it's easy to track progress and see what still needs to be done, etc.
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all a case of time management. I do jot down deadlines if I have a lot going on, but otherwise I keep a pretty much good overview of what I am doing
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Thayenga
Германија
Local time: 08:07
Член (2009)
англиски на германски
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I've just completed a big project without planning anything. I figured out roughly how long it would take me, the deadline was 2 weeks, and set out to work. I mean, the time I might have spent planning this project would definately be put to a better use starting to translate right away.
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Hello everybody,
In fact, my question was changed a little bit by Proz. They added "big" whereas I wanted to know "How do you manage your projects day-to-to not to forget any job to deliver; where you put the client name, the type of project (translation, editing), volume, deadline?" For example, I use a diary (paper way) in which I put all my projects. I have a friend that writes her weekly programm on sheets of paper, some people use also a software like TO 3000. And you?
... See more Hello everybody,
In fact, my question was changed a little bit by Proz. They added "big" whereas I wanted to know "How do you manage your projects day-to-to not to forget any job to deliver; where you put the client name, the type of project (translation, editing), volume, deadline?" For example, I use a diary (paper way) in which I put all my projects. I have a friend that writes her weekly programm on sheets of paper, some people use also a software like TO 3000. And you?
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Michael Harris wrote:
all a case of time management. I do jot down deadlines if I have a lot going on, but otherwise I keep a pretty much good overview of what I am doing
| | | | Kay Denney
Франција
Local time: 08:07
француски на англиски
I keep an Excel table for each week where I jot down the job number, number of words or whatever info I might need for billing, the name of the person/company I must deliver to, and some other info to remind myself of what it's about (e.g. press release new collection), all in chronological order according to deadline.
It starts out as a "to-do" list and then turns into a record of what was done. It gives me a good idea of the work in hand and I plan accordingly.
When ... See more I keep an Excel table for each week where I jot down the job number, number of words or whatever info I might need for billing, the name of the person/company I must deliver to, and some other info to remind myself of what it's about (e.g. press release new collection), all in chronological order according to deadline.
It starts out as a "to-do" list and then turns into a record of what was done. It gives me a good idea of the work in hand and I plan accordingly.
When I receive a mail with a job, I open it and keep it open until it has been logged into thisExcel file (while I'm still negotiating for example).
For big projects, I simply work out the number of words I have to do each day (leaving time to tie up odds and ends of course) and stick to it no matter what, trying to keep a little bit ahead of schedule just in case something crops up. ▲ Collapse
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| Pen and paper | Feb 25, 2014 |
Pen and paper for me, in a little notebook.
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The projects I work on tend to be long term ones which take several months to complete, so I don't have lots of smaller jobs to keep track of. However, I do have an old-fashioned diary on my desk which I use to organise myself. I use it to keep a note of how many words I plan to translate each week, and how many I have actually done so that I can keep the customer informed of my progress, as well as any scheduled phone 'meetings' with the customer or anything else I need to remember.
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Re the original question:
We enter the basic info for all jobs in a simple homemade Excel spreadsheet which works out the cost of each job and adds it all up each month/year. This has worked for us completely unmodified since 1995!
Re the modified question:
We don't do translation projects that are too big for our brains alone to handle
| | | | Diana Coada (X)
Обединето Кралство
Local time: 07:07
португалски на англиски
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| All info is stored in an Excel file | Feb 25, 2014 |
Client name, PO number, deadline, invoice number, due date, etc, etc. Colour coding helps me a lot as well!
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Angie Garbarino
Local time: 08:07
Член (2003)
англиски на италијански
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| In this case... | Feb 25, 2014 |
Sandrine Zérouali wrote:
Hello everybody,
In fact, my question was changed a little bit by Proz. They added "big" whereas I wanted to know "How do you manage your projects day-to-to not to forget any job to deliver; where you put the client name, the type of project (translation, editing), volume, deadline?" For example, I use a diary (paper way) in which I put all my projects. I have a friend that writes her weekly programm on sheets of paper, some people use also a software like TO 3000. And you?
Sandrine
I do a folder in my desktop with client name and deadline, when completed I move it in "document" in a folder named with the month, I divide projects month by month
| | | | | In both cases, pen or pencil and paper | Feb 25, 2014 |
Marjolein Snippe wrote:
Pen and paper for me, in a little notebook.
I keep track of incoming jobs and deadlines etc. on an A4 sheet which I normally keep under the keyboard - to slip out instantly when a mail arrives or the phone rings.
In my case 'big' translation projects often mean big files, whhich do not necessarily contain many thousands of words.
I only have a single screen on my PC and often print the source, and but I use my laptop as an extra screen if the source text is a PDF with graphics that eat up too much ink paper or don't print well for other reasons.
To keep consistency long-term - whether it is in one big job or a series over time for the same client, I enter all sorts of notes and 'terminology' in tables in Word (I hate Excel!!) or as glossaries in Multiterm, if there are not too many notes.
But while I am working or making preliminary plans, I write everything down on paper. Then if I want to keep it, I edit it into searchable electronic form afterwards.
I also add entries to Multiterm 'on the fly' if they come up frequently in the text or can save me some typing!
| | | | Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 23:07
шпански на англиски
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[Edited at 2014-02-25 10:18 GMT]
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