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English for Standups, Scrums, and Sprints
Welcome to June's resource roundup
Throw away your outdated business English textbooks!
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RESOURCES
English for Agile Meetings
⚠️ Most Business English lessons were made for office meetings in the 1990s — overly formal, outdated language and not relevant to modern, distributed tech teams.
This is especially true for finding materials to learn English for Agile meetings. In fact, most English teachers will have no idea what Agile is.
That’s where we step in!
We’ve pulled together top resources for Agile meetings:
A full guide to sprint planning in English
Focus on phrasal verbs for daily standups
Switch your overly formal language for more natural phrases in a retrospective
Can you keep up with a daily scrum or retrospective meeting with native English speakers? Practice listening
A full glossary of Agile terminology
Time-management phrases for discussing timelines and deadlines
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