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Editorial Project Management

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Welcome to Editorial Project Management

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Unit 1: Preliminaries

1 PRELIMINARIES: INTRODUCTION
1.1 WHAT IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT?
1.2 JARGON BUSTER
1.3 INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE STUDIES

Unit 2: Becoming a project manager

2 BECOMING A PROJECT MANAGER: INTRODUCTION
2.1 WHO ARE YOU?
Exercise 1: Skills checklist
Exercise 1: How did you get on?
Exercise 2: Skills crossover
Exercise 2: How did you get on?
Exercise 3: Why project management?
Exercise 3: How did you get on?
2.2 WHERE DOES THE WORK COME FROM?
Exercise 4: Who do you want to do it for?
Exercise 4: How did you get on?
2.3 WHO WILL YOU BE WORKING WITH?
Exercise 5: Who does what?
Exercise 5: How did you get on?

Unit 3: What is a project?

3 WHAT IS A PROJECT? – INTRODUCTION
3.1 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Exercise 6: Match the market to the medium (what is most appropriate?)
Exercise 6: How did you get on?
Exercise 7: Cost, timescale and scope – what is best value?
Exercise 7: How did you get on?
3.2 PLANNING AND CONTROL
Exercise 8: Where can the project manager influence planning?
Exercise 8: How did you get on?
Exercise 9: Match the responsibility to the role
Exercise 9: How did you get on?
Exercise 10: Issue or risk?
Exercise 10: How did you get on?
Exercise 11: ‘Lessons learnt’ meeting
Exercise 11: How did you get on?
3.3 WORKFLOWS: PRINT AND DIGITAL
Exercise 12: Create a simple workflow
Exercise 12: How did you get on?
3.4 WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Unit 4: Scheduling

4 SCHEDULING: INTRODUCTION
4.1 BUILDING A SCHEDULE
Exercise 13: Find the critical path
Exercise 13: How did you get on?
Exercise 14: Dealing with variables
Exercise 14: How did you get on?
Exercise 15: Create a schedule
Exercise 15: How did you get on?
4.2 MANAGING A SCHEDULE
Exercise 16: Change a schedule
Exercise 16: How did you get on?
4.3 WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Exercise 17: Identifying and solving problems
Exercise 17: How did you get on?

Unit 5: Briefing

5 BRIEFING: INTRODUCTION
5.1 UNDERSTANDING THE CLIENT'S BRIEF
Exercise 18: Understanding your project management brief
Exercise 18: How did you get on?
5.2 BRIEFING YOUR TEAM
Exercise 19: Create a SMART brief
Exercise 19: How did you get on?
Exercise 20: Create a proofreader’s brief
Exercise 20: How did you get on?
5.3 WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Exercise 21: Checking a typesetter’s brief
Exercise 21: How did you get on?

Unit 6: Budgeting

6 BUDGETING: INTRODUCTION
6.1 WHO SETS THE BUDGET?
6.2 TYPES OF BUDGET
Exercise 22: Costing a project
Exercise 22: How did you get on?
6.3 MANAGING THE BUDGET
Exercise 23: Costing a change request
Exercise 23: How did you get on?
Exercise 24: Working out your costs
Exercise 24: How did you get on?
6.4 WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Exercise 25: Feedback email
Exercise 25: How did you get on?

Unit 7: Management and communication

7 MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION: INTRODUCTION
7.1 SELECTING THE RIGHT PEOPLE
Exercise 26: Selecting a freelance copyeditor
Exercise 26: How did you get on?
Exercise 27: Approaching a freelance copyeditor
Exercise 27: How did you get on?
7.2 REPORTING AND FEEDBACK
Exercise 28: Catch-up meetings
Exercise 28: How did you get on?
Exercise 29: Escalating issues
Exercise 29: How did you get on?
Exercise 30: Author issues
Exercise 30: How did you get on?
7.3 WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Unit 8: Being an editorial project manager

8 BEING AN EDITORIAL MANAGER: INTRODUCTION
8.1 COMMUNICATION
Exercise 31: The way you communicate
Exercise 31: How did you get on?
8.2 THE DAY-TO-DAY NITTY GRITTY
Exercise 32: Prioritising
Exercise 32: How did you get on?
Exercise 33: Keeping records
Exercise 33: How did you get on?
8.3 BUILDING UP AND USING THE EXPERIENCE
Exercise 34: Skills audit
Exercise 34: How did you get on?
8.4 WHAT COULD GO RIGHT?
Exercise 35: Your perfect project
Exercise 35: How did you get on?

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