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Listen to your customer !~Listen ! Listen ! Listen !

11 Sept 2017

There is probably one part of the product management job we can all agree is the hardest – people. People are unpredictable, have strong opinions and unconscious biases, and many people in your organisation have more power than you, yet are wrong just as often. In this illuminating talk from Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 Janna Bastow, Co-Founder of Mind the Product and Co-Founder and CEO of ProdPad, shares her own stories of dealing with people, and how she handles the toughest part of the job.

Vocabulary for Project Managers: most common terms – ESL: vocabulary in English.

ESL activity: Vocabulary

1-Give simple definitions in English (do not translate them into your mother-tongue language) of the following terms (you may use synonyms or opposites, and you can provide examples to make your definitions clearer and simpler):

-WBS

-Milestones

-Baseline

-Triple Constraint

-Project Life Cycle

-Gantt Chart

-CCB

-Stakeholder

-Change Management  (different from Managing Change)

-Risk Mitigation