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Localization
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Join Adam Asnes, President,
Lingoport in Madison, WI October 13-15th
Adam
will be attending Localization World, where he always ends up
spending far more time schmoozing than attending presentations.
This
is one of those conferences where the happenings are in the hallways.
It’s a great place to catch up with our localization
partners executives and sales people, as well as meet with current
and new clients. If you’re going to the conference and would
like to meet with Adam, please contact him via email.
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If you prefer to read
this online go to: http://www.lingoport.com/company/newsletter/1008/
Welcome to Lingoport’s Autumn 2008 WorldReady
Newsletter
There’s quite a bit in this installment of the newsletter
for you. There is always a sprint here to achieve business goals
by the end of the year, and so this particular newsletter especially
reflects that. Here are some of our features:
• Three major practices to emphasize when you and your team have to stretch the capacities of your engineering performance.
• October 30th Webinar (it’s free) – Managing internationalization
and Localization
• Localization World – October 13-15th
in Madison, Wisconsin
• Globalyzer 2.4.5 Software
Release
• Article on Internationalization Stakeholders and Decision
Making
Current financial events bear a focus to how they may play out in strategic globalization planning. In my limited client sampling, I’ve had one client pushing especially hard to make globalization release goals with increased budget, while another recently had to postpone an expanded effort. I’m currently writing an article on how the current global financial changes may affect corporate globalization planning. If you have a story or insight to share for the article, please drop
me an email.
Best regards,
Adam Asnes
Lingoport, Inc.
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Managing challenging deliverables:
For some reason, perhaps the panic of year end budgets, the
second half of the year is almost always crazy busy for us
with internationalization services projects. In each of the
last three years, our late summer and fall workloads have taught
us how to efficiently operate at new capacities. While a fat
backlog of work may sound great, you can’t let
quality suffer and you have to do the work and hit milestones.
The lessons are not rocket science, but require a daily focus
on what’s
most important. Top three points would be:
1. Have good developers – they should be resourceful and enjoy aligning and working with one another. Camaraderie should be fed with good pizza and coffee (our office is located directly above the best pizza joint and coffee shop in Boulder).
2. Manage your milestones – While I wouldn’t call us an Agile
methodology shop (Agile typically wouldn’t often line up well
in terms of parallel development with our clients’ respective
development teams), we do break down all our work into very
clear smaller milestones. Usually there are several milestones
per developer per week. This helps us manage our success by
keeping on track with day to day tasks, as well as watching
the broader release goals. We know if we’re flirting with trouble
well ahead of an event or crises, and then individual developers
can step in and help team members get through trouble spots.
Of course to make this work, you need very clear and accurate internationalization
scoping, estimation and design.
3. Keep it positive and constructive– cause life’s too short. It’s important to keep a focus on what’s needed as well as progress made. It doesn’t help to get upset in the throes of a deadline because someone has made a “stupid” mistake. Learn from it, have that person correct it, and keep things moving forward. Managing milestones actually makes keeping things positive a bunch easier, and managing with positive responsibility is better for everyone over the long haul rather than using milestones like a battle axe on everyone’s head. Positive and accountable team members are much more likely to initiate project responsibility as each member takes pride and ownership in the teamwork.
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When: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 12:00PM Mountain Daylight
Time (GMT -06:00)
Where: Watch from Your Computer
Duration: 1 hour
Registration: Visit the Enlaso registration page please
Want
a crash course in managing internationalization and localization
efforts? This no charge webinar is packed with detailed information
on everything from gaining project and company backing, to
managing design and implementation efforts while dovetailing
localization for highly efficient global releases.
Please join us for our free October 30th Webinar:
Managing Internationalization and Localization, presented
in partnership with Enlaso. We’ll be getting into the details of issues like analyzing requirements, scoping the effort, getting organization backing, running concurrent i18n and new development and keeping your code internationalized over the years. We know that’s a lot of information to promise, and this promises to be a highly impactful opportunity. Did I mention it’s free?
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Article
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Understanding i18n Stakeholders by
Adam Asnes, President, Lingoport
As appeared in Multilingual Magazine
In pretty much all of our client engagement opportunities at Lingoport, we quickly arrive at a common discrepancy in how people within organizations view the decision process for internationalization and localization.
On the one hand you have a VP or CEO saying, “We must have this product ready for such and such market by year end!” and on the other extreme, you might have an engineer plotting out her decision process based on technical task oriented details – like locale frameworks, database changes and the like.
One mindset is event or strategic driven. The other is focusing
on the minutia of the process. Neither approach is wrong, but
I always feel the client is best served when both mindsets come
together.
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