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Are you facing at least one international-related challenge that you and your team are finding difficult to resolve?
Don’t waste time and money reinventing the wheel! Take a LISA Professional Skills Workshop and leave with the latest best practice to share with your team back at the office. At the LISA Forum Europe 2009 the following workshops will be presented:
Monday, June 22, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
- Managing Enterprise Terminology – Principles, Methods and Business Objectives
- Project Management for Globalization Professionals
Software Globalization Testing –
with an Emphasis on Translatability Testing and Pseudo Translation
Instructor: Dale Schultz
Monday, June 22
Globalization of software requires much more than translation. The software has to be properly designed, enabled, tested and translated. This workshop will provide an overview of an efficient approach to the globalization testing of software. The Why, What, When and Who of globalization testing will be explained and best practices will be suggested.
There are two main areas of globalization testing, the functional and translation testing. One of the aspects of functional globalization testing is translatability testing - determining if software can be translated. Attempting to translate software into multiple languages before it is translatable can be an expensive and frustrating experience for everyone involved so it is important to test translatability beforehand. Translatability testing allows the development team to fix translatability issues in the software before it is sent off for translation, resulting in significant translation cost savings. A translatability testing methodology called pseudo translation will be presented and the technique explained.
The workshop will cover:
- What Globalization testing is and why it is so important.
- When should globalization testing be done and by whom.
- Minimizing the test effort while maintaining adequate coverage.
- Translatability testing
- Advantages
- The how, when, and who
- Types of issues that can be detected
- Practical application of pseudo translation
Managing Enterprise Terminology – Principles, Methods and Business Objectives
Instructor: Signe Rirdance
Thursday, June 25
To compete in multinational markets, companies must include terminology management early in their product development process. Key product terms must be sanity checked, catalogued, documented, fed through the localization process, and repurposed for future use. Learn the fundamentals of terminology management that can help your company avoid errors, save time, and improve customer satisfaction and brand image.
The workshop will include practical exercises to be conducted online. Participants are requested to bring a laptop with a wireless card, if possible, in order to participate in these exercises.
Project Management for Globalization Professionals
Instructor: Kenneth McKethan, Jr.
Thursday, June 25
This workshop provides practical helps to equip the project manager how to not just survive, but to productively assume greater control over projects. Software developers and service provider managers will likewise come away with practical insights on empowering their project managers for better results.
