from lonely wolves to efficient teamwork

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FROM LONELY WOLVES TO EFFICIENT TEAMWORKHow to coordinate projects and see real-time statistics while avoiding term inconsistencies and human error

Natalia Conovca, CEO of Intart Design, 24 March 2015

Where is Moldova?


What is Moldova?


Cricova underground wine cellar


Mileștii Mici underground wine cellar


The Capital City - Chisinau


WE FOCUS

ON QUALITY


Quality = professional translators + proper IT solution


• Glosary management software• Terminology extraction tools• Translation quality models• Statistical machine translation

My journey for the proper IT solution


Temporary mobile licenses


• Difficult to make sure that all translators work with the most updated memories and glossaries

• Inconsistent terminology


Extract Terms

One translators develops the glossary

The proofreader reviews and approves the glossary


Parallel Work

All translators translate and the proofreader proofreads in parallelThe same translation memory and glossary used by the whole team


• The Project Manager had to trust blindly the freelancers

• Unpleasant “surprises”


Real Time Monitoring

The project manager monitors in real time the translators’ pace andTakes corrective actions in due time, if needed


Linguistic QA

Translators see the changes made and have to approve themFacilitates our trainingsEasy “cold reviews”


LiveDocs

The aligned corpora is stored as LiveDocs

Only approved translation units go into the memory


Happier team PM has more control over the whole processTranslators like concordance, communication and LQAProofreader – the happiest: no more repeated mistakes


THANK YOU!

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