English For IT Professionals: From SDLC to Scrum & Beyond

Explore product-based and service-based IT companies, outsourcing, and business models like B2C and B2B. Learn company sizes, startups, corporations, MNCs, and social enterprises.

Learn to describe your IT company with practical vocabulary on milestones, location, and services. Master terms such as based in, employ, specialize in, develop, deliver, acquisition, and merger.

Explore the software development lifecycle and its six stages from requirements collection to maintenance, and learn key terms like stakeholders, requirements, design, and blueprint.

Explore phase four, integration and testing stage, where QA specialists test modules to ensure the software meets requirements, fix bugs, and retest across functional, unit, integration, regression, and performance testing.

Master the tech stack by learning pronunciation and usage of popular languages, frameworks, databases, servers, APIs, and business intelligence solutions, and explore the full-stack developer role.

explore software testing basics, including QA and QC, definitions, and the relationship to quality management, with a focus on quality assurance, quality control, and usability of graphical user interfaces.

Explore graphic user interface elements like checkboxes, list boxes, toggles, buttons, radio buttons, dropdowns, text fields, search fields, and learn to describe related bug reports with accurate terminology.

Discover how the Scrum Guide underpins agile Scrum practices, with guidance on certification, roles like Scrum Master and Product Owner, and essential terms, artifacts, and glossary resources.

Explore coherence in product backlog items and the Scrum guide's empiricism, underpinned by transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Learn about forecasted functionality, increments, backlog refinement, and velocity in self-managing, cross-functional teams.

Learn essential remote-work vocabulary—from home office setups and stable internet to BYOD, COBO, and COPE policies—covering distributed, hybrid, and all-remote teams, freelancing terms, and time-tracking basics.

Master online meeting skills by learning conference call and videoconference basics, screen sharing, and rescheduling, while using practical phrases to navigate remote meetings, Zoom fatigue, burnout, and workation.

Master meeting vocabulary for leading IT projects. Learn agenda, minutes, chair, objectives, and show of hands, plus online meeting practices like required and optional participants.

Master essential meeting phrases for IT professionals, from welcoming attendees and setting the agenda to asking for clarification, moving on, handing over, and closing the meeting.

Discover trends in IT, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, and virtual and augmented reality, with real-world examples like Google Maps and Spotify.

Explore blockchain basics, internet of things, and big data trends, then examine emerging IT trends like edge computing, quantum computing, and hybrid cloud, alongside cybersecurity essentials.

Explore talking about the future with be going to for plans and predictions based on evidence, and with might, could, or may for less certain intentions, arrangements, and future facts.

Learn how to discuss future plans, arrangements, and predictions using be going to, present continuous, and present simple, plus future simple with shall, might, could, or may.

Explore how to talk about the past using past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous, with narrative tense usage, examples, and practice exercises.

Master comparatives and superlatives in English, including rules for -er/-est, more/less, and key exceptions, plus the difference between adjectives and adverbs.

Master modals of probability in present and past, using must, might, could, may, and can't, and the have past participle construction, with examples and practice.

Master the distinction between a/an and the in IT English, including first mentions and definitions. Learn exceptions for proper nouns, days, months, and set expressions.

Learn to report speech by shifting tenses, adjusting pronouns, and using modals, with guidance on say versus tell and time expressions like tomorrow or yesterday.

Explore how to report questions and commands in English, master backshifting of tenses, use if/whether and question words, and apply examples with asked, told, and said.

Learn to form and use passive voice across present, past, perfect, continuous tenses, modals, and infinitives or gerunds by using be plus past participle, with IT reporting examples.

Explore the use of passive voice in IT communication, comparing be and get, understanding when the doer is omitted, and practicing converting passive to active in reporting and technical writing.

Explore gerunds and infinitives, learn which main verb governs the second verb, and distinguish meaning changes with verbs like stop, forget, and try, through practical examples and exercises.