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Elements Of Communication: Back To The Future

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

The entire software development scene seems to be occupied with the issue of communication. And with a good reason. We in the software industry really do have a communication problem.
Many of the problems we encounter in software development projects can be traced back to communication problems. Software development is a people-oriented activity. Almost none of […]

Elements Of Communication: Lost In Translation

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Imagine five bright people sitting around one table, speaking what seems to be the same language, using common words, which could be found in any dictionary, and correct grammar. And yet no one really understands the others.
No this is not one of those riddles that make your head hurt when you try to solve it. I believe […]

You Are Here!

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Here’s the deal. You find yourself in a city you do not know. How did you get there? You don’t know. It is just as if you were dropped in the middle of this foreign city by aliens. No one around seems to speak your language. Everywhere you look you see roads, buildings, cars – […]