This project presented an extreme challenge due to the number of persons involved (one translator and one editor for each language), the tight and fixed deadline (the global marketing launch of the Iridum campagne) and the distribution of the project members across 14 time zones.

Finally, the marketing agency delivered the translation input with 6 weeks delay, so that the project got under heavy pressure.

To be able to deliver results within about half of the projected time, several classical project management strategies were employed including:

• "Early start": the translation pipeline was started with incomplete text to eliminate process lead times
• Cost/Time compromises were shifted towards cost
• "Graceful degradiance": Instead to deliver all-or-none results, we delivered daily releases of the web site with English as a default for missing translations.

Iridium Russian