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of your your choice your choice for this
choice and draft a and draft a semester
and draft a goal to goal to put in related to this
goal to onboard a place a course or
add new quality another
support localization model. course.
for a new vendor. 
language.
S (Specific) Your goal should Quality plan
be well defined, that includes
detailed and deliverables,
clear. milestones,
test scripts
and issues
tracking
workflow
M (Measurable) Is your goal Automated
measurable? QA report
You should be Standardized
able to tell when evaluation
you reach your form score
goal Statistics from
issues
reporting tool
A (Achievable) Can you reach All quality plan
Actionable the goal taking timelines take
into account into account
your available resources
time, skills, and availability
financial status? and
stakeholders
related
deadlines and
the available
budget
R (Realistic) Is your goal High Yes
Relevant realistically value
achievable low
within the given effort,
time frame and 80/20
with the
available
resources?
 T (Timely) Set a start and See below for
finish date for specific
your goal schedule of
each QA step.

Add Japanese & Mandarin support for Blablacar (Ann & Wei-San)

Milestone Date

Onboard a new localization vendor (Thais)

Milestone Date

Place a quality model (Nektaria): Times are only suggestions and will be adjusted in real life
project based on volume and resources.

Phase/Objective Milestone Date

Pre production
Creating reference assets Deliverables: Styleguide, Time needed: 3 weeks
Glossary, Termbase Deadline: 1 month before
translation hand off date
During production
CAT tool QA Automated check completion: Time needed: standard
 Run QA in CAT tool metric 1 hour/10k words.
To be adjusted based on
project specific assessment
of expected issues (variable
and formatting tags,
terminology density)
Deadline: to be performed
right after translation is
completed and before
delivery to editor
LQA Evaluation a. Completion of Standardized Time needed: standard
Evaluation Report metric 1 hour/1500 words.
documenting errors with Assuming the production
specific descriptions and phase includes
severities proofreading and editing
b. Arbitration steps, the evaluation step
c. Content update may only be performed on
a 10% sample of the
content.
Deadline: Have the
evaluation ready within the
first 3 days after delivery of
the first batch of TPE. Allow
3 days for arbitration and
update.
Post production/pre launch: Steps below to be performed in context
A. Linguistic QA a. Completion of test scripts Time needed: 2 months to
B. Formatting QA on all platforms to cover allow testing of all content
C. Functional testing all user/action scenarios. in context and resolution of
b. Entering issues on launch-critical issues.
collaboration platform Deadline: All launch-critical
for monitoring and issues successfully resolved
resolution and closure. 3 weeks prior to launch
date. Non launch-critical
issues to be addressed in
the two months following
the launch.