Course description
This course is aimed at experienced editorial and other publishing professionals who are looking to widen the scope of the work they undertake. It is ideal for freelance editors who feel confident to manage other aspects of the publishing process. It would also be a valuable resource to support publishing professionals who are employed in a publishing company. Project managers, production coordinators, project editors or indeed anyone who has project responsibility would benefit from taking this course.
The course explains what project management is, without using jargon. It aims to give you the skills to undertake the tasks involved and to equip you with the understanding to manage a project and yourself skilfully. Throughout the course, you will work on two (fictitious) projects.
By the end of the course you will
- understand the roles and responsibilities of a project manager
- be able to recognise and transfer the skills you already have to manage an editorial project
- have learnt new skills that will help you in the role of project manager
- be fully equipped to undertake the role of project manager.
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Welcome
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Before you start
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Resource centre
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Unit 1: Preliminaries
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Unit 2: Becoming a project manager
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- 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?
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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?
Course completion (work in progress)
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