The Annual LISA Forum Europe

Building Global Teams Locally

Outsourcing, European Integration and Globalization

Project Management for Globalization Professionals

09:00 - 17:00 : Thursday, October 25 - Friday, October 26, 2007

Workshop Overview

Globalization project management is not a black art. But it might as well be, given the level of misunderstanding often associated with it.

Project managers in this space are often left to make their own way, ill-equipped to meet external challenges from tight, shifting schedules, scope creep, inflexible budgets, and unrealistic customer expectations.

Internal challenges can be equally daunting. These typically include lack of process awareness and support on the part of development, sales, and management.

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.

Case study inductive analysis will be used to impart practical project management principles through an interactive approach. Team exercises will provide synthesis with the individual’s own experience to the benefit of other participants.

Areas of focus include the following project management disciplines:

• Expectation management
• Communication management
• Scope management
• Defining deliverables
• Realistic milestones
• Change management
• Risk management
• Earned Value Analysis
• Lessons Learned

The presenters draw on their many years of combined experience in virtually every facet of the business: translation, localization and internationalization, as well as project management. In addition, each has experience in freelance, SME and large corporate environments.

Who will benefit from this workshop and why?

Anyone interested in surviving, supporting, and improving project management in the fast-paced world of software SimShip.

In particular, service providers will benefit both in terms of internal operations and interactions with their software developer customers.

Who:	Interested in...
Globalization project managers	Empowerment through professional skill improvement. Introducing greater control and consistency over projects. Improving interrelationships amongst project stakeholders. Increasing buy-in from customers and management. Controlling project churn.
Service provider managers	Increasing understanding of the high-pressure business of software G11N project management. Improving project planning. Taking project management resource optimization to a new level. Improving management of customer expectations.
Product development managers	Collaborating with G11N vendors to plan realistic SimShip release schedules, budgets, scopes. Leveraging relationships with internal or vendor project managers.

About Volkmar Burke Siegemund

Volkmar Burke Siegemund is a software internationalization engineer and globalization project manager with IBM’s Tivoli division at Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. He is a foreign language professional with over 10 years’ experience in the industry, covering a variety of areas: translation, software localization and internationalization, project management, linguistic testing and internationalization testing, financial planning, and vendor management.