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BEP 313 – 项目管理 4: Scrum站立会议 (1)

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BEP 313 - 工程英语 4: Scrum站立会议 1

Welcome back to Business English Pod for today’s lesson on conducting a scrum stand-up 用英语开会.

Not everyone likes meetings, and for good reason. Many meetings are poorly organized and poorly run. But meetings are a necessary part of work and business, especially in 项目管理. 为此原因, it’s important that we find ways to have good meetings.

If you’ve worked in software development, especially agile environments, you’ll know about one excellent kind of meeting called a scrum or stand-up meeting. Scrum is an approach to software development that uses cross-functional teams. Each day, the team has a short stand-up meeting where people update others on progress, plans, and challenges.

Whether or not you work in software development, leading a scrum style meeting is a useful experience. You’ll have to do many things that apply to all good meetings. 例如, you’ll need to open the meeting and ask for updates. You may also find the chance to suggest collaboration between team members. And the person running the meeting is also responsible for putting aside, or sidebarring, issues that can be discussed after the meeting. These are all techniques that can help you in any kind of meeting, whether you work with scrum or not.

在今天的对话中, 我们会听到吉尔, a project manager and scrum master, leading a daily scrum meeting. We’ll also hear two team members, Katherine and Sam. Sam will be first to provide his updates. 和, as you’ll hear, Jill will help keep the team focused.

听力问题

1. When she opens the meeting, what does Jill suggest they do to stay focused?
2. When Sam says what he is going to do today, what does Jill suggest?
3. What issue does Jill want to “sidebar,” or leave for after the meeting?

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BEP 308 – 项目管理英语 3: 初始测试版本

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商务英语播客 308 - 项目管理英语 - 初始测试版本

欢迎回到Business English Pod，今天的课程 项目管理会议的英语. 在本课中, 我们将考虑向客户提供初始测试版本.

在上一课中, 我们研究了以良好的态度设定清晰的期望有多重要 项目启动会议. 但是，无论您对客户的工作流程有多好的教育, 交付初始测试版本时，您仍有工作要做. 您不能将其交给客户并等待他们的反馈. 如果项目管理这么简单，那将是很好的, 但这不是. 交付初始测试版本需要仔细处理.

一件事, 您需要管理客户的期望. 这意味着要确保他们了解您没有交付最终产品. 而是, 您正在给他们一些尝试的机会, 或测试. 通过这种方式, 项目管理涉及协作, 或与客户一起工作. 在交付初始测试版本时，您需要强调这一点.

在测试过程中，协作特别重要. 为客户精心设计程序是一个好主意. 如果没有, 那么你很可能会遇到障碍. 当您移交测试版本时, 您可能还会发现客户的需求发生了变化. 还是他们想要新的东西. 在这种情况下, 重要的是要清楚地确定项目范围的变化. 而且您需要确保客户了解，可能由于范围变更而导致成本超支.

在今天的对话中, 我们会听到马丁, OptiTech的项目经理. 他一直领导物流公司开发新软件。. 马丁正在与扎拉举行电话会议, 客户公司的经理, 和利亚姆, 他们的IT经理. 他们正在讨论OptiTech的初始测试版本.

听力问题

1. 对话开始时, 当他们查看初始测试版本时，Martin想要重点关注什么？?
2. 马丁说的是测试过程的第一步?
3. 马丁如何回应Zara和Liam的“负载招标工具”要求?”

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BEP 307 – 项目管理英语 2: 启动大会 (2)

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商务英语播客 307 - 项目管理英语 - 启动大会 2

欢迎回到商务英语播客今天的课程, which continues our look at a 项目启动会议.

Anyone who’s been involved with projects should know just how important it is to have good communication with a client. And good communication starts right at the beginning, at a project kickoff meeting. That’s when you’ll have the chance to make sure a client understands how you work and how the project should run.

在上一课中, we looked at some of the basics that you need to cover in your first project meeting. 今天, we’ll look at some more ways of increasing your chances of avoiding problems and ensuring that a project runs smoothly. 在很多情况下, it can be a good idea to actually bring up potential obstacles in your meeting. If you see something that might impact the timeline or the budget, you can let the client know about it. And that might mean that you have to educate the client about your work process.

When you educate a client about your development process, you might find yourself using too much technical language. But if you want the client to really understand, you might have to rephrase that information in simpler terms. 当然, you don’t want to focus too much on potential problems. And for that reason you should know how to redirect a discussion away from problems and toward other issues. 例如, you might need to ask the client for important information to get the project started.

在今天的对话中, we’ll rejoin Martin and Jill. Their company, 光学技术, is starting a new project to develop software for a logistics company. Martin and Jill are kicking off the project by holding a teleconference with Zara, the manager of the client company, 和利亚姆, 他们的IT经理. In this part of the dialog, Martin and Jill are making sure Zara and Liam understand potential obstacles and the development process.

听力问题

1. What does Martin say is the cause of some potential obstacles?
2. What is Jill’s simple explanation of a technical idea that Zara didn’t understand?
3. When Martin redirects the discussion away from obstacles, what does he say he wants to discuss?

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BEP 306 – 项目管理英语 1: 启动大会 (1)

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商务英语播客 306 - 项目管理英语 - 启动大会

Welcome back to Business English Pod for our new series on 项目管理英语. For our first lesson we’re going to look at a kickoff meeting at the start of a project.

Whether or not you’re a project manager, you surely know that every project is a unique and complex process. Seeing a project through to completion, on time and within budget, takes a huge range of people skills and business know-how. And sometimes during a big project it might feel like everything is working against successful completion.

But there are ways to minimize some of these challenges. This is particularly true at the beginning of a project when it’s important to make sure you get off to a good start. 一件事, you’ll need to meet with the client to make sure the ground rules of the project are clear. 否则, you’ll be dealing with confusion mid-project. Kicking off a project effectively also means outlining protocols, or important procedures, and explaining lines of communication. 毕竟, when a problem or challenge does arise, everyone should know exactly who to talk to and how to make the necessary changes.

The kickoff meeting is also a time for everyone to make their priorities clear. If you are the client and sticking to the timeline is more important than keeping to the budget, you should make that known right from the start. 当然, there may be competing priorities. And as a project manager, you may have to manage client expectations carefully, which might involve setting some conditions when you agree to something.

在今天的对话中, we’ll join Martin and Jill, who work for a software company called OptiTech. Their company is holding a teleconference to kick off a project to develop custom software for a logistics company that will help them manage and track shipments. Martin is the project manager, while Jill is the lead developer. On the call, we’ll also hear from Zara, a manager at the logistics company, 和利亚姆, 他们的IT经理. 一起, they are all trying to get the project off to a good start.

听力问题

1. How does Martin say that Jill should deal with technical issues?
2. What does Zara emphasize as her company’s priority in the project?
3. Near the end of the conversation, what condition does Martin attach to the successful management of the timeline?

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BEP 303 – 商务旅行 6: 讨论战略变革

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欢迎回到 商务英语播客 for today’s lesson on discussing strategic change.

The world of business and the economy are constantly changing. And businesses need to respond with their own changes, or risk getting left behind. But change can be difficult both for people and for organizations. As a leader of people in a changing organization, you might face resistance. So you need to be able to manage change well. And that often involves effective discussions with others in the company about strategic change.

当然, change is easier when the general feeling in a company is positive. And that’s why you might need to gauge morale when you’re talking with others. That will help you figure out how to manage the change. But managing change doesn’t mean promising that it will be easy. 代替, you should carefully warn others about possible difficulties.

Another thing you should do is to be clear about messaging. Change is a lot easier if everyone has the same idea about what’s happening and why. It’s also a lot easier if you can show the benefits of the changes. And that’s why you should talk about change as an opportunity that can help the company, and its people. If you can successfully show people that change is an opportunity, then you should get a positive response when you ask people whether they’re committed to the changes at hand.

在今天的对话中, we’ll hear Cam and David, who work for an American clothing company called Boston Vintage. David is the manager of the company’s Shanghai office. Cam is a production manager who is visiting China to meet with the company’s staff and look at new production facilities. In an earlier conversation, Cam told David that the company has made the strategic decision to focus on Southeast Asia rather than China.

听力问题

1. How does Cam gauge morale, or ask about the overall feeling among staff?
2. What is the basic explanation for the change that Cam wants David to communicate?
3. According to Cam, why is this change an opportunity for David?

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