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🕺В субботу провели первое офлайн-мероприятие по подготовке к интервью. Был такой вот #вопрос_от_студента

❓«I have PM experience in a different sphere. What should I put an emphasis on at the interview for a position of PM in an IT company?”

❗️Our answer- transferable skills!

Подумайте, почему в следующих soft-skills вы хороши. Какие ситуации/проекты/проблемы помогли их прокачать?

✔️flexibility+client-orientation

✔️organizational/planning skills

✔️team working skills

✔️troubleshooting

🔗 все их любят...и мы тоже. Linking words.
Сегодня те, которые показывают результат или последствие:

📌As a result (of this)
📌Consequently
📌Hence
📌For this reason
📌Thus
📌Because (of this)

✔️The new project has finally been approved. As a result, a lot of developers on the bench could be involved

Как сказать "ходить по струнке" или "не выходить за рамки"? #вопрос_от_студента

📌Английский аналог будет to toe the line (|təʊ|).

✔️I don't want to be a part of that banking project as everyone there has to toe the line

🧗🏻‍♂️О том, что бывает со всеми из нас:

📌to hit a snag- to encounter an issue, drawback, or challenge (столкнуться с небольшими трудностями)

✔️A project to replace TouchPad's webOS with the open-source operating system Android has already hit a snag.

👥Отличный способ подготовиться к интервью!

Откройте описание вакансии и ответьте (себе честно) на следующие вопросы:

📌Which requirements do I meet & to what degree?
How critical are they for the vacancy?

📌Which requirements do I not meet?
How critical are they for the vacancy?
What should be done to improve this situation?

📌Which responsibilities I don’t like to perform?
How critical are they for the vacancy?

☝️Кстати, наши занятия по подготовке к общему и техническому интервью вам тоже отлично помогут

⚽️Отличные идиомы со словом “to play”

📌To play it by ear- improvise and be spontaneous about it (поступать по обстоятельствам)

✔️I’m not sure what the requirements are, we’ll just have to play it by ear.

📌to play for time- to delay on purpose because of some other objective (тянуть время)

✔️I think he’s just playing for time before he makes a decision.

📌to play along with- pretend to agree in order to get what you want or avoid an argument (подыгрывать)

✔️I know our Product owner's being unreasonable but I suggest we just play along with his ideas. It’ll make everyone’s life easier.

#TEnglish_word_of_the_day

📌to perceive- to come to realize or understand (пер. воспринимать)

✔️Mockups make it easy to perceive the idea of the final product, and the process of mockup creation is less time-consuming compared to prototypes.

😳Мы тут заметили, что студенты иногда используют лишние слова

✔️слово different- там, где в нем нет необходимости

❌several different options or many different participants.

📌several options and many participants- имеют то же самое значение

Для тех, кто планирует увольняться или сомневается "А стоит ли?". Статья с Medium, шутливая и по делу одновременно: https://medium.com/s/please-advise/its-not-you-it-s-me-consciously-uncoupling-with-a-long-term-work-relationship-4002bf828157

А как у вас обстоят дела с решением проблем?

💯О том, как писать цифры в технической документации

📌The style rules for numbers can vary, but the most important thing is to remain consistent throughout the document.

📌Generally, spell out numbers less than 10; write numbers 10 or greater as figures. This applies to both cardinal and ordinal (spell out first or fifth, but use 14th or 122nd)) numbers.

📌Some exceptions to the general rule include:

✔️Express time in figures: “11:30 a.m.; 4:00 p.m.”

✔️Do not begin a sentence with a figure: either spell out the number (however large), or rewrite the sentence so it does not begin with a number.

✔️Very large numbers are expressed in figures followed by the word million, billion, etc. For example: not 1,000,000,000, but 1 billion.

✔️Use figures for all percentages and decimals within a sentence: “A score of 3 percent was reached an average of 3.5 times.”

Знать: для технической документации, описания продукта... в общем, всем будет полезно.

Assure, Ensure, Insure- в чем разница?

📌Ensure means “to make certain.” (пер. обеспечивать)
✔️The legislation ensures public access to the coast.

❗️This is generally the word you want in reports or business communications.

📌Insure is a specific word meaning to set aside resources in case of a loss (пер.страховать)
✔️We insure our car against accidents.

📌Assure means to provide verbal reassurance to someone (пер. уверять)
✔️ You think I did it deliberately, but I assure you (that) I did not.

⏳Сделаем паузу в разговорах о технической документации.

🙅‍♀️Когда вы не можете выразить своё полное несогласие с собеседником, но и согласиться- никак, можно использовать следующие фразы, которые помогут продолжить вести диалог:

📌I still have my doubts, but...

📌I agree up to a point, but...

📌That is not necessarily so.

📌You could say that. However,

📜А есть ли среди нас те, кто пишут техническую документацию? Если да, то есть совет.

Когда вы написали предложение, посмотрите, нет ли в нем лишних слов 🧐Ключ к успеху- простота.

📌Примеры слов, которые стоит избегать:

♦ as you know
♦ at the present moment in time (replace with “now”)
♦ basically
♦ completely
♦ essentially
♦ extremely
♦ in order to (replace with “to”)
♦ in terms of
♦ it can be seen that
♦ it is interesting that
♦ it should be remembered that
♦ moreover
♦ quite
♦ totally
♦ utilize, utilization (replace with “use”)
♦ very

🙍🏼‍♀️🙎🏼‍♂️Не очень важное... только на первый взгляд.

Когда вы пишите любую техническую документацию, избегайте местоимений он/она. Вот что советуют эксперты:

📌No personal pronoun in English refers to both sexes. When discussing general categories of people, try to rewrite the sentence in the plural to avoid the issue of gender.

❌Instead of “A programmer would see the flaw in this logic. He would correct it immediately.”

✔️Use “Programmers would see the flaw in this logic. They would correct it immediately.”

🙍🏼‍♀️🙎🏼‍♂️Use gender-neutral nouns and pronouns:

chair instead of chairman
their, they, or them rather than he, she, her, or him.

Почти на тему грядущего "праздника" пост получился😂

Два новых глагола для проблем:

📌to uncover a problem- выявить проблему

✔️We can minimize the risk of creating a useless product by observing and talking to people. Hence, uncovering the problem that customers really have is the key at the very beginning.

📌to tacke a problem- решить проблему

✔️Thinking in products makes sure designers tackle real user problems and herewith reduce the risk of building something nobody wants
#UX_English

📜После постов о User Stories, нас спросили: "А что же надо знать об Acceptance criteria?". Ведь их же... больше, они должны быть четкими и понятными.

📌Есть User Story:

As a frequent book buyer I want strong passwords so that my credit card information remains secure.

✔️Для нее будет такой вот Acceptance criteria:

The password is at least 8 characters. The password contains a character from each of the following groups: Lower case alphabet, Upper case alphabet, Numbers Special Characters (!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*).

📌Цель Acceptance criteria- избежать многочтения User stories.

📌📌📌Они просты, Present Simple Active и Passive, модальные глаголы- то немногое, что используется в критериях.

✔️An acknowledgment email is sent to the customer submitting the form.

📌Можно еще такой вот сценарный метод использовать: Given/When/Then:

✔️Given I’m a logged-out system user
and I’m on the Sign-In page
When I fill in the “Username” and “Password” fields with my authentication credentials
and I click the Sign-In button
Then the system signs me in
#Вопрос_от_студента

📜Что еще по User Stories?

Если вам нужно добавить детали к As a < type of user >, I want < some goal > so that <some reason >, то вы можете разбить стори на несколько или добавлять детали к этой.

📌Добавить детали можно с помощью конструкции "BY+ VERB+ING"

✔️As an administrator, I want to invite estimators by giving them a url where they can access the game so that we can start the game

✔️As an estimator, I want to start a round by entering an item in a single multi-line text field, so that we can estimate