III. Translate the following focusing on the underlined parts, analyse the transformations.

1. Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a management process designed to help an organization acquire and view information about all of its projects, then sort and prioritize each project according to certain criteria, such as strategic value, impact on resources, cost, and so on.

2. Juggling priorities is today a way of corporate life.

3. In computing, multitasking is a method where multiple tasks, also known as processes, are performed during the same period of time.

4. Changes can be made to agenda text by any user who has access to the departmental agenda calendar.

5. If you're asked to pay an initiation when joining a gym, you may be asking yourself whether this is really necessary or a scam.

6. Comments zone is a part of the entry, containing comments (more precise definitions, explanation, etc.).

7. The time that you spend researching your customers and users, will pay off handsomely when it comes to taking tough decisions during the implementation phase.

8. New houses are on target for completion in November.

9. The Project Management Life Cycle has four phases: Initiation, Planning, Execution and Closure.

10. Increased personal responsibility as defined in campaign objectives was determined by two parts: receiving information about AIDS and related issues and actually practicing safe sex.

11. The essence of the invention is in use of sequential and parallel combinations of waves in therapy.

12. By so doing, the risks of overlapping with or diverging from other investigative or settlement bodies can be substantially reduced.

13. This parameter search is typically done by computer using a combination of relatively simple numerical routines and relatively complex graphics tools.

14. To complete the entire flow chart for Euclid's algorithm, we substitute this chart for forming a remainder into the box at the centre right in our original chart.

15. Although a Gantt chart is useful and valuable for small projects that fit on a single sheet or screen, they can become quite unwieldy for projects with more than about 30 activities.

16. As the receiving team member of the work product or deliverable from another team member, we do not find out that the input to our work is unacceptable until we attempt to use the input in our process.

17. For a typical project, a milestone might be the completion of a product design while the deliverable might be the technical diagram of the product.

18. The person you were speaking to is put on hold.

19. Various web-enabled project management software offer planning, collaboration, time management, bug tracking tools all in one bundle.

20. Let's face it; virtual teams (where we work with colleagues in remote locations, be they close by or in different countries) are now a reality in the.

21. The European Union shared the Advisory Committee’s concerns regarding the delays in the construction of the North Lawn Building and slippages in the schedule for relocating Secretariat officials to the swing space.

22. Together these sums represent the equivalent of two or three nuclear submarines per decade, or the cost overruns on one of the many weapon systems in a single year.

23. There are some risk factors that you cannot change, such as older age or a family history of heart disease.

24. The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that is based on the mixture of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ criteria; takes into account people’s well-being and resource use of countries.

25. A total energy irradiated by the black body and measurable by a contact-less infrared thermometer is a total energy irradiated at all wavelengths.

26. From this flows stakeholder analysis, a more in-depth look at stakeholder group interests, how they will be affected and to what degree, and what influence they could have on your project.

UNIT 2

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION

PART I

PROJECT MEDIATORS