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PRACTICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Improve your English and Project management skills


Practise all 4 skills in English, increase your level of fluency. 

Build key vocabulary & phrases related to Project risk management.

Engage with your counterparts around the world. 

Gain the essential knowledge to communicate professionally.

Program

Curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Where the program starts

    • Welcome to the program!

    • How quizzes work

    • how writing exercises work

    • how the end of the week quiz works

    • how the community works

    • 🧭 How do you say that?
  • 2

    Week 1: Introduction to Project Management

    • What is Project Management?

    • Defining a project

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Classic & Agile project management

    • Agile approach

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Agile methodology

    • More about Agile

    • 📢 what do you think of Agile?

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Iterative cycles

    • Incremental cycles

    • Initiating process

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Planning process

    • Executing process: planning

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Executing process: performing

    • Monitoring & controlling process

    • 📢 Closing process

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Project lifecycle & process groups

    • Knowledge Areas

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Knowledge areas exercises

    • How does Agile compare?

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️The importance of project management

    • The impact of poorly managed projects

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Project & development cycles - PMBOK Guide®

    • PMBOK Guide® Process groups & knowledge areas

    • 📢 Which knowledge areas do you benefit from?

    • 📖 Explain process groups

    • Reflections on your English progress

    • 📖 Sprint

    • 📢 The sprint approach

    • 🏁 Project Management Intro: test
  • 3

    Week 2 - Process groups: Initiating & Planning

    • Appreciating your feedback

    • Initiating process group

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Develop project charter

    • 📢 Identify stakeholders

    • 📖 Summarising Initiating Process Group

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ The Planning Process Group

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Develop project management plan

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Plan scope management

    • 📢 Define scope

    • 📢 Create WBS

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Activities: define

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Activities: duration, sequence & schedule

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Activities: estimate costs & budget

    • 📖 Estimate resources

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Activities: plan quality management

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Activities: plan Resource Management

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Activities: plan Communications management

    • 📢 Activities: plan to manage Risks

    • 📢 Activities: perform qualitative risk analysis

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Activities: perform quantitative risk analysis

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Activities: plan Risk responses

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Activities: plan Procurement management

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Activities: plan Stakeholder management

    • 🏁 Summary of Initiating & Planning
  • 4

    Week 3- Process groups: Monitoring /Controlling & Closing

    • Last of the process groups

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ The Executing Process Group

    • 📢 Manage the work

    • 📖 Manage the quality

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Get resources

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Develop & manage the team

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Manage stakeholders & communications

    • 📢 The Monitoring & Controlling Process Group

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Integrated change control

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Validate scope

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Control scope

    • 📢 Control schedule

    • 📖 Control costs

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Control quality

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Control resources

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Monitor communications

    • 📢 Monitor risks

    • 📢 Control procurements

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Monitor stakeholders

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ The Closing Group

    • 📢 Close project

    • 🏁 Conclusion to process groups

    • Please share your feedback with us
  • 5

    Week 4 - Case Study: Astra Zeneca / Agile

    • A practical example: Astra Zeneca

    • Astra Zeneca - Agile project management in action

    • 📢 Agile impact on the AZ Info Systems

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Articles training (AstraZeneca)

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Prepositions training 1 (AstraZeneca)

    • 📖 Dictation assignment (AstraZeneca)

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Prepositions training 2 (AstraZeneca)

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Phrasal verbs training (AstraZeneca)

    • 📢 AZ Chose Agile - why?

    • 🧭 insights from McKinsey

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ True / False (AstraZeneca)

    • 📢 What made the impact possible?

    • 🏁 Final quiz: AstraZeneca
  • 6

    Week 5 - Knowledge Area: Communications Management

    • PM - Knowledge Area: Communications Management

    • 🧭 Tips for Better Project Communication

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Comprehension training exercises

    • 📢 When thinking about communication...

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Prepositions training (Communications Management)

    • 📖 Dictation assignment (Communications Management)

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Articles training (Communications Management)

    • 🧭 Plan Communications Management

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Prepositions training 2 (Communications Management)

    • 📢 Secrets to manage communications

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ True / False exercise (Communications Management)

    • 📢 Monitor Communications

    • 🏁 Final Quiz: Communications Management
  • 7

    Week 6: Knowledge Area: Risk Management

    • Knowledge Area: Risk Management

    • 🧭 An introduction by Dr Mike Clayton

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Vocabulary training (Risk Management)

    • 📢 A thought about risk

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Sentence completion (Risk Management)

    • 📖 Reflection exercise (Risk Management)

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Articles training (Risk Management)

    • 🧭 Identify Risks

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Verb tenses (Risk Management)

    • 📢 Prepositions audio post (Risk Management)

    • 📢 Plan risk responses

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ True / False exercise (Risk Management)

    • 📢 Monitor risk

    • 🏁 Final Quiz: Risk Management
  • 8

    Week 7 - Knowledge Area: Scope Management

    • Knowledge Area: Scope Management

    • 🧭 What is Project Scope?

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Vocabulary training (Scope Management)

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Articles training (Scope Management)

    • 🧭 Define Scope - basic process

    • 📖 Reflection exercise (Scope Management)

    • 📢 What's your project scope statement?

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Sentence completion (Scope Management)

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Verb tenses (Scope Management)

    • 📢 Audio post (Scope Management)

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ True / False exercise (Scope Management)

    • 🧭 Control Scope - 5 tips

    • 📢 How do you control scope?

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Prepositions training (Scope Management)

    • 🏁 Final Quiz: Scope Management
  • 9

    Week 8 - Knowledge Area: Procurement Management

    • Knowledge Area: Procurement Management

    • 🧭 Dr Mike Clayton on Managing vendors

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Vocabulary training (Procurement Management)

    • 🧭 Procurement Management -one definition

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Comprehension Exercises (Procurement Management)

    • 📢 Initial steps in Procurement Management

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Speak (Procurement Management)

    • 📢 Audio post (Procurement Management)

    • 🧭 Negative prefixes (Procurement Management)

    • 📢 Procurement Management / plan / tools & techniques

    • 🏋🏻‍♂️ Negative Prefixes training (Procurement Management)

    • 🏁 Final Quiz: Procurement Management
  • 10

    Now What?

    • Program wrap-up - language

    • Program wrap-up - Project Management

    • 🧭 Next steps

Benefits

BUILD:

  • Professional English vocabulary

  • Knowledge of project management

  • Your communication abilities

  • Confidence

What you can expect

An engaging English learning program based on Project Management knowledge. A program designed to get you fluent in the terms, vocabulary and phrases typically used in Project Management.

Boost

  • Vocabulary

  • Pronunciation

  • Grammar

Unique methodology

  • MOTIVATION

👉🏻 join the community + participate in discussions 

👉🏻 following your progress

  • DISCIPLINE

👉🏻 we'll be watching how you're doing 

👉🏻 You'll be reminded to get back in the course 

  • INTERESTING

👉🏻 expect  interesting information about this exciting subject

👉🏻 collaborate with your peers and share ideas

👉🏻 keeping you involved with  daily training exercises 

👉🏻 When you're progressing quickly we'll supply you with additional interesting content to check out.  

  • OUR METHOD

👉🏻 we'll be mixing 4 skills: speaking / reading / writing / listening

👉🏻 you will be taking individual 1:1 classes once a week. 

👉🏻 your progress benefits you directly in a professional field (project management) 

Participate actively in group activities

  • 👉🏻 The world of education is always evolving. The focus is no longer on the role of the teacher to teach but rather on the student to learn.

  • 👉🏻 You can learn a lot by collaborating with others at your level. This is done by asking questions, sharing what you learn, and giving feedback to others.

  • 👉🏻 Questions get answered faster in communities, without relying on a quick response from the instructor.

HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS PROGRAM

👉🏻 We encourage candidates to keep up with the pace of the program. In this way you will be better prepared for the classes.

👉🏻 During the program, you are welcome to send your feedback at any time using the comments feature that is available with every lecture.

👉🏻 Please read this document to understand how the course works and what you can expect.


Tests & Classes

👉🏻 There is a pass mark requirement of 80% on end-of-chapter quizzes. 

👉🏻 You can book classes yourself individually. Details on how to do this can be found [HERE]


Lessons

Each lesson contains information. Sometimes this is additional information for you. 

Exercises will prompting you to think about what you've just learned. 

There is a structure, including step-by-step instructions. 

The curriculum is always in advance. You will know exactly what the training exercises are, how to do them, and what the requirements are.


Icons used in the program

Icons on the left side of the pages alert you to special information. 

🛠 More technical terms that help to build your vocabulary.

🧭 Extra information you want to check out to expand your knowledge

🏋🏻‍♂️ Training exercises.

📢 speaking/writing practice 

📖 assignment

🏁 quiz


 If you are ever confused about how to do something, simply ask for help through our email channel. This can usually be found at the bottom of the training pages.

EXTRA IDEAS

👉🏻 Create a shortcut to the course, so you can easily log in every day. We will always provide you links in our communication to make this easier too. 

👉🏻 When we study a foreign language, one of the best techniques is to mix your skill training (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) and train on these daily. 

👉🏻This takes more time and requires you to either think deeply or interrupt your own language environment daily. This is intentional. 

👉🏻It is especially important if you really want to improve your use of English in specific topics like Project Management.

👉🏻Practice and daily training has a cumulative effect. You might not notice improvements each day, but just keep training yourself and you will develop fluency in the subject. 

👉🏻You will soon realize your vocabulary increases, your pronunciation improves, and you speak more fluently.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

I have feedback/ideas about how to improve this program.

If you have any feedback at all - we would like to hear from you. Simply leave a comment at the bottom of the individual lectures and we will consider it for future improvements to the program. 


Is this program visible on my phone/tablet?

YES. We use a platform that is mobile responsive, so it adapts to the screen size of your device. 


I am busy and cannot keep up with the program and training exercises. 

If you are starting to fall behind with your work, we'll be in touch to check in on how we can help you to make progress.