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Otti leads a project
Otti's company is building an app for Berlin's libraries, and for the first time Otti leads the project - eight people, six months, one deadline. Learn to plan milestones, to delegate tasks, to keep an eye on the schedule and the risks and to stay calm when something is delayed.
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Boss
Otti, bevor die Bibliotheken morgen den Zwischenstand sehen wollen: Wie sieht es aus? Halten wir den Zeitplan ein?
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Translation
Otti, before the libraries want to see the progress update tomorrow: how are things looking? Are we keeping to the schedule?
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Otti
Ehrlich gesagt, nicht ganz. Beim Arbeitspaket „Ausleihe“ zeichnet sich eine Verzögerung von gut zwei Wochen ab.
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To be honest, not quite. A delay of a good two weeks is emerging in the "Lending" work package.
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Otti
Zum Teil schon. Das Risiko stand von Anfang an auf der Liste, nur ist die Schnittstelle der Bibliotheken noch verworrener, als man uns zugesichert hatte.
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Partly, yes. The risk was on the list from the start; it's just that the libraries' interface is even more tangled than we'd been assured.
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Otti
Ich würde neu priorisieren: Die Suche setzen wir termingerecht um, die Erinnerungsfunktion wandert in den zweiten Meilenstein.
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I'd reprioritise: we'll implement the search on schedule, and the reminder feature moves to the second milestone.
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Otti
Eben. Deshalb delegiere ich die Tests an unsere Werkstudentin und koordiniere die Schnittstelle selbst mit den Bibliotheken.
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Exactly. That's why I'm delegating the tests to our working student and coordinating the interface with the libraries myself.
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Boss
Dann präsentieren Sie das morgen genau so. Für Ihre erste Projektleitung bleiben Sie übrigens erstaunlich gelassen.
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Then present it exactly like that tomorrow. For your first time leading a project, you're remarkably calm, by the way.
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Words and Phrases
- die Projektleitung project management
- der Meilenstein milestone
- der Zeitplan schedule
- das Arbeitspaket work package
- der Zwischenstand progress update
- die Verzögerung delay
- die Priorität priority
- die Kapazität capacity
- die Umsetzung implementation
- die Machbarkeit feasibility
- priorisieren to prioritize
- koordinieren to coordinate
- umsetzen to implement
- einhalten to keep to
- absehbar foreseeable
- termingerecht on schedule
- reibungslos smooth
- alle Hände voll zu tun haben to have one's hands full
- das Projekt project
- delegieren to delegate
- das Risiko risk
- das Team team
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