Practices

10:51 Mar 12, 2019
English to German translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - IT (Information Technology)
English term or phrase: Practices
I am having an extremely hard time figuring out the meaning of "practices" in the examples below. The area is IT Professional Services. Any help is greatly appreciated!

"I have been a consultant, led large programmes, built and run practices and more recently I have been responsible for the Services Sales team in the *** Country Unit with annual professional services revenues of ***."

"However, it is also clear that there is plenty of opportunity for improvement and whilst there are not too many critical projects, we do need to strive to minimise the impact of financially underperforming projects both in the practices and with our colleagues in Group ***."
Boris Rogowski
Germany
Local time: 04:42


Summary of answers provided
4 +1Abteilungen, Serviceeinheiten, Teams
Anja DeLuca
3Verfahren
Regina Eichstaedter
3Praxen
bluenoric
4 -1Praktiken
gofink
3 -1(praktische) Anwendungen
Renate Radziwill-Rall
2Praxisabteilungen
D. I. Verrelli


Discussion entries: 13





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
practices
(praktische) Anwendungen


Explanation:
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Renate Radziwill-Rall
France
Local time: 04:42
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 14
Notes to answerer
Asker: That is what I thought at first, but I don't see how it works in the context of "minimise the impact of financially underperforming projects both in the practices and with our colleagues in Group ***"


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  ibz: Hm, nachdem ich mir das nun noch genauer überlegt habe, scheinen die Einwände des Fragestellers berechtigt zu sein.
32 mins
  -> merci

neutral  Steffen Walter: Der Einwand des Fragestellers ist berechtigt - "Anwendungen" scheint mir hier nicht so ganz zu passen.
1 hr

disagree  D. I. Verrelli: Unlikely for the given context.
118 days
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
practices
Verfahren


Explanation:
built and run practices - Verfahren erstellen und durchführen
both in the practices and with our colleagues in Group - (Projekte, die finanziell hinter den Erwartungen zurückblieben...) sowohl hinsichtlich der Verfahren als auch der Mitarbeiter in der Gruppe (Verkaufsteam)

Regina Eichstaedter
Local time: 04:42
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 42
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
practices
Praxen


Explanation:
Praxis, as in professional business (see definition 3b in the link below)

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Not really, at least according to Duden:
Räumlichkeit, in der ein Arzt, Masseur, eine Heilpraktikerin, Psychiaterin o. Ä., auch ein Anwalt, eine Anwältin seinen bzw. ihren Beruf ausübt
Unternehmen could be an alternative, too.


    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/practice
bluenoric
Germany
Local time: 04:42
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: The MW definition makes sense here, but "Praxen" is, afaik, exclusively used for medical practices.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Thomas Pfann: „Praxis“ halte ich im Deutschen für den falschen Begriff, aber gemeint ist es wohl so. Vielleicht Unternehmen, Betrieb, Büro...
35 mins

neutral  Steffen Walter: Mit Thomas.
48 mins

neutral  Rolf Keller: Praxen haben nicht nur Mediziner: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitschrift_für_die_Anwaltspra... Aber kein Muttersprachler würde jemals auf die Idee kommen, das Wort bei technischen Berufen zu verwenden.
19 hrs
  -> https://www.juve.de/handbuch/de/2019/kapitel/24555
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1 day 6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
practices
Praktiken


Explanation:
and there had not been a successful fusion of their various IT processes and practices = bei denen die verschiedenen IT-Prozesse und IT-Praktiken nicht konsolidiert wurden - see https://woerterbuch.reverso.net/deutsch-englisch/IT-Prozesse...


Dabei handelt es sich um ein mehrjähriges IT- Projekt, das die besten IT-Praktiken für die Bereitstellung und Verwaltung der technischen Hilfe im IWF einführt - see https://books.google.at/books?isbn=1451940610


von IT-Systemen und Tools systematisch durch die Erforschung der IT-Praktiken ergänzt - see
https://books.google.at/books?isbn=384091731X

Standardisierte IT-Praktiken und Tools - see
https://books.google.at/books?isbn=3834808458

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I have ... built and run practices = ... Praktiken erarbeitet und ausgetestet

IT-Ferialpraktikum 2019 - ...werden mögliche Routinen für zukünftige Laborübungen und PR-Auftritte erarbeitet und ausgetestet - see https://www.aau.at/technik-studieren/it-ferialpraktikum/

gofink
Austria
Local time: 04:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 386

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Steffen Walter: Unwahrscheinlich, da unpassend zum Kontext "minimise the impact of financially underperforming projects both in the practices and with our colleagues in Group ..."./Doch, im obigen Kontext handelt es sich in beiden Fällen um dieselben "practices".
15 hrs
  -> practices ist nicht gleich in practices !
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84 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
practices
Abteilungen, Serviceeinheiten, Teams


Explanation:
in the IT business a practice is a term for a specific unit or team for instance a project management practice would be the department or team responsible for project management. In this context I would probably go with Serviceeinheiten. The complete term would be translated as "Serviceeineiten aufgebaut und geleitet".

Anja DeLuca
United States
Local time: 22:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  D. I. Verrelli: "Serviceeinheiten" might be suitable. A contrast has to be set up with "units", "Groups" and "teams".
34 days
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118 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
practices
Praxisabteilungen


Explanation:
Another option, building on one of Anja DeLuca's suggestions.

"Leitung der Praxisabteilung Marketing"
https://www.chocofactory.ch/ueber-uns/team/

"Diese Verhaltensvereinbarung der Praxisabteilung dient dazu, einen reibungslosen fachpraktischen Unterricht zu garantieren, [...]."
http://www.firnbergschulen.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Reg...

"* Kennenlernen einer Praxisabteilung.
* Siemens Digital Industries ist ein Technologie- und Innovationsführer für die industrielle Automatisierung und die Digitalisierung."
https://jobs.siemens-info.com/jobs/117285?lang=de-de

https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&qu...

FWIW, "Praxiseinheiten" doesn't seem to fit.
https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&qu...

D. I. Verrelli
Australia
Local time: 12:42
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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