Posts tagged with communication
Martin Fowler on how technical terms lose their meaning as they spread. When a useful concept becomes popular, it passes through a "telephone game" of explanations until the original definition gets diluted or even inverted. Think of how "agile" or "DevOps" are used today versus their original intent.
Read more [martinfowler.com]
A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice.
Read more [stephango.com]
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Ideally every meeting should be categorised in advance so that everyone’s going in with the same expectations.
Read more [adactio.com]
– frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant
When someone comes to you with a question to do something, instead of blindly doing the ask, take a step back and try to understand what they actually want to achieve. Often this task might actually not be the best way to achieve the goal they are set out to do.
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Users don’t know what your product does, how to use it, or why they would use it. You need docs to explain this.
Read more [newsletter.posthog.com]
Communication is an absolutely critical skill for product development. But it's hard and it requires practice and feedback.
Read more [thunk.dev]
We can’t possibly build products that are useful, let alone delightful, if we don’t frequently talk to the people who’ll use it.
Read more [www.markhamsq.com]
Some good advice by Michele Hansen
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Some good tips for writing effictive, human-friendly documentation.
Read more [thenewstack.io]
These tips are also useful for any kind of presentation, whether on a conference, or an internal presentation for your company.
Read more [www.morling.dev]
Distributing speaking time can be tricky when meeting face to face, but it is usuallly worse in virtual meetings. Especially those spanning long distances.
Read more [hiddedevries.nl]
Here are some strategies Toon Daelman uses in discussions.
Read more [engagor.github.io]
React lead dev Dan Abramov makes the case for naming your ideas and projects.
The problem it’s solving might be so ingrained that we don’t even notice it. It’s the elephant in the room. And we can’t discuss what we never named.
Read more [overreacted.io]
In this fantastic talk given at the uncon of Laracon EU 2018, Chris Brown gives many actionable tips for aspiring and experienced speakers.
Justin Jackson wrote a cool post on the benefits of public speaking.
As a geek, there's one skill that's helped me level-up professionally more than anything else: public speaking. Whether it's doing product demos, presenting an idea to my team, or being on a podcast, it's a skill I benefit from every day. But the biggest opportunities have come from giving talks.
Read more [justinjackson.ca]
Benjamin Eberlei wrote a post on why and how he got rid of Slack in his company.
We have moved away from Slack at Tideways over the last three months, because I found Slack is already annoying, even with just a four person team (plus the occasional freelancer). For me, it disrupts deep work phases and knowledge lost in the depth of chat history.
Read more [beberlei.de]
On Basecamp's Signal v. Noise blog Claire Lew warns about the dangers of wanting to be nice all the time.
Now I’m not advocating for us to be mean. Disrespectful or dismissive leaders help no one. Rather, I’m calling for us as leaders to loosen our grip on “being nice.” To stop wanting our team to like us all the time. To let go of the expectation that every single interaction with our team should feel good. ... When we’re preoccupied with seeming popular instead of fair, when we optimize for pleasant conversations instead of honest ones — we hurt our teams.
Read more [m.signalvnoise.com]
Zeno Racha wrote down some of his thoughts around public speaking. I've not given as much talks as he has but surely agree with everything in his post.
Having 10 years of experience on something is nice, but don’t wait for it to get started. The best speakers I've seen are not the ones who knows all the in’s and out’s about a certain topic.Here's the secret that nobody will tell you — the only requirement for giving a talk is passion. That’s it. No diploma, no famous project, no masters degree, no nothing. All you need is passion.
https://medium.com/@zenorocha/what-ive-learned-after-giving-100-talks-8f175654e945
My colleague Jef, who handles accounts at Spatie, recently was interviewed by Viraj Khatavkar. Read it to learn some interesting tidbits on how our company is being run.
Mathias Verraes, one of the organizers of DDD Europe, recently gave a talk at DDD London on how to name things to both improve your code and to improve communication with the business.
“Make the implicit explicit” must be one of the most valuable advices I ever got about software modelling and design. Gather around for some tales from the trenches: stories from software projects where identifying a missing concept, and bringing it front and centre, turned the model inside out. Our tools: metaphors, pedantry, type systems, the age old heuristic of “Follow the money”, visual models, and a healthy obsession with language.