Projects And English

Projects and English •What is the meaning of a “Project”? •How projects can be? •Why English is strongly related?

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Projects and English •What is the meaning of a “Project”? •How projects can be? •Why English is strongly related?

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What is the meaning of a Project? • Temporary 1. Has a defined star and end . End means: A. Objectives are met. B. Project is not needed any more. 2. Doesn’t mean short.

• Unique differ, even slightly similar from other projects. • ROWAD, 2008, KSA • PMBOK 3th Ed, PMI , 2004

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What is the meaning of a Project? Cont. • Progressively and Elaborated.

Ad va nced to th e nex t acti vi ty o r ph rase. • ROWAD, 2008, KSA • PMBOK 3th Ed, PMI , 2004

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Projects and English •What is the meaning of a “Project”? •How projects can be? •Why English is strongly related?

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How project can be? Lets take a simple example ………….. Shall we

What type of car you need? Fast - Cheap Good You can pick any

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OK … Wha t t ype of t his c ar ?? ? • Peter McBride, PMP, 2001, www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5C0v13e4U0 • PMBOK 3th Ed, PMI , 2004

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How project can be?

These terminologies and methodologies come from an organization called PMI (Project Management Institute) In U.S.A • ROWAD, 2008, KSA • PMBOK 3th Ed, PMI , 2004

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Projects and English •What is the meaning of a “Project”? •How projects can be? •Why English is strongly related?

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• Eng Molham Aldrobi, PMP, Teaching certified from PMI, 2004 • PMI organization.

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• PMI organization. www.pmi.org

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Conclusion • The definition of project : unique, temporary, progressively and elaborated. • The triangle columns of the project and the processes. • How it’s very strong related to English (American English) (Native English Speaker Country) 12

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References: • PMI (Project Management Institute), www.pmi.org • Eng Molham Aldrobi, PMP, Teaching certified from PMI, 2004, ROWAD organization, KSA • Peter McBride, PMP, 2001, visual audio www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5C0v1 3e4U0 • PMBOK 3th Ed, PMI , 2004 14

English origins A survey of about 80,000 words in the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary (3rd ed.) was published in Ordered Profusion by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff (1973):

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French and Old Norman : 28.3% Latin : 28.24% Other Germanic languages : 25% Greek : 5.32% No etymology given: 4.03% Derived from proper names: 3.28% All other languages contributed less than : 1%

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