This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the processes,
principles, and constraints of project management in the translation
industry. It offers readers clear insights into modern-day project
management practices specific to translation services and an
understanding of critical inter-related aspects of the process, drawing
on key works in business studies on management, aspects of economics
relevant to project management, and international standards on project
management processes.
Developed on the back of a successful module titled Intercultural
Project Management, Translation Project Management provides a coherent
account of the entire translation project management lifecycle from
start to finish and pays considerable attention to the factors
influencing decision- making at various stages and how external forces
shape the way in which a translation project plays out. Through an array
of real-world case studies, it offers readers opportunities to explore,
analyse, and engage with six fundamental project constraints: cost,
time, scope, quality, benefits, and risk. Each chapter offers discussion
points, possible assignments, and guided further reading.
This is an essential textbook both for all project management courses
within translation studies programmes and for professional translators
and translation service providers.
Additional resources are available on the Routledge Translation Studies
Portal.
