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Editorial Project Management

Dates:

A two-day course

Start date:
01 June course held at Imago in Oxfordshire

01 June 2015
28 September 2015

Venue:

Imago – Thame, Oxfordshire

DV West One – Portland Place, London W1B 1PR

Courses scheduled to start at 9.30am prompt and end at approximately 5pm.

Price:

£795+VAT

A number of discounts are available

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Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability.

‘Course was extremely helpful and covered all my requirements.’

Reality Publishing delegate

‘I think I now have a better grasp of project management from start to finish and more confidence and appreciation of how projects (including people and resources) can best be managed. It has offered some practical solutions for issues I’ve encountered recently.’

Imperial War Museum delegate

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Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

assess the scope, needs and risks of an editorial project
accurately estimate timings to produce a detailed and reliable schedule
create and maintain the project budget to ensure profitability
effectively manage and communicate with your team and other stakeholders.

This course contributes to PUB 22 of the Book & Journal Publishing National Occupational Standards.

Who will benefit from this course?

Editors, desk editors, project editors, production editors and managing editors who are responsible for the management of complete editorial projects.

Programme

The role of the editorial project manager
- Tasks and skills
- Print and digital workflow
- Responsibilities
Understanding the project
- Determine goals and objectives
- Determine requirements
- Determine resources
- Assess risks
Examining the content
- Assess structure and use of language
- Calculate extent of main text and features
- Consider format and digital blend
- Review multimedia and functionality
Scheduling
- Efficiency and critical path
- Estimating time the Agile way
- Scheduling tools and tips
Budgeting
- Determining the costs
- Assessing profitability
- Planning contingency
- Keeping to budget
Managing the team
- Putting an effective team together
- Communicating effectively
- Creating briefs
- Working with freelancers
- Negotiating fees.

Your Tutor

Sarah Sodhi is an editor and project manager at the forefront of digital editing techniques. Her clients include many educational publishers, such as Oxford University Press, Pearson and Scholastic. She started working in production in 1998, moved across to editorial in 2001, and now enjoys the opportunity to do both through her company Red Door Media.

Note that most of our short courses can also be run as In-Company events.

Dates: 01 June 2015, 28 September 2015
Duration: A two-day course
Price: £795+VAT
A number of discounts are available

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