Editorial Project Management
This practical course is based on real case studies and, where possible and appropriate, will focus on the everyday issues and problems that you encounter in your editorial project management work. At the end of the two days, you will leave with some immediately applicable solutions and strategies. There will also be a range of more generic checklists to take away and use as tools in the future.
This course will teach you to:
- evaluate and successfully plan editorial projects
- produce books and other resources to the agreed specification, within budget, on time and at the right quality
- consider how and where things can go wrong, and how to prevent this.
Programme
- How to evaluate the resources required for successful delivery
- People
- Budget
- Schedule
- Sticking to the specification
- Being clear about what the specification should cover
- Who is responsible for doing the work and for bearing the cost?
- Effective briefing
- Working with authors, editors, designers and production – in-house and freelance
- Being aware of the implications of change, especially for budgets
- Sticking to the budget
- Overview of basic costing and gross margin calculations
- Impact of changes to fixed costs on gross margin
- Negotiating fees
- Cost vs time dilemmas
- Sticking to the schedule
- Creating workable schedules
- Progress chasing – systems and tools
- Managing workloads
- Scheduling work from authors, editors, designers and production
- Ensuring quality
- Why feedback is important and how to deliver it
- Troubleshooting session on specific problems.
Who will benefit from this course?
Editors, desk editors, project editors, production editors and managing editors in book or journal publishing, and anyone else who is taking on the management of complete editorial projects.
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.
- Dates: 23 April 2012, 04 October 2012
- Duration: A two-day course
- Price: £755+VAT
- A number of discounts are available
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