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Communication Dictates Software Design

Explore how effective communication within teams influences software design and overall project success. Understand communication delivery schemes and Conway's Law to improve team collaboration, alignment, and engagement in managing software projects.

Benefits of right communication

If you get communication right within a department, there’s a wealth of benefits to be had. Notably:

  • Individuals are aligned with the collective purpose and vision supporting what is being built, and each individual understands the part that they and their team are playing toward achieving it.

  • The department learns collectively as progress and new discoveries are shared, individuals normalize on best practices, and mistakes generate better ways of approaching those situations in the future.

  • Individuals feel engaged and motivated since they have maximal opportunities to learn from others and broadcast what they have learned.

However, doing it right is tough. We touched upon the difficulty of communication earlier in the ...

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