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| Project Management |
Project management – The “Hurix Way” is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to projects in order to meet or exceed project, client and stakeholder requirements.
Over the last 5 years, Hurix has been able to set up a mature project management system that has been tried and tested in various types of activities. It has been supported by PMP-certified Project Managers. |
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Control mechanisms in the system ensure a deviation-free timely delivery of the project. Hurix Net is an in-house developed project management tool which helps us to monitor the efforts, schedule, etc.
The phases of project management are as follows: |
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Acquisition |
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Initiation |
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Planning |
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Development & Control |
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Closure |
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The roles and responsibilities of a project manager are as follows: |
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Both onsite and offshore project management support |
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Author chasing/management |
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Managing and balancing the load between authors, publishers, editorial, production and printers |
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Collating proof corrections from author, editor and proof reader |
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Monitoring castoff estimate vs. actual proof pages length |
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Monitoring deviations from the scope of the project (cost, schedule, etc.) and alerting |
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Coordinating between contributors of FM, BM and indexers |
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Mapping and managing supplementary editions |
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With the above points in mind, the phase flow is documented as below: |
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