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Re:New study: Software teams with more women communicate better by jph on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:55PM (#22763711)
"As an important output of our survey, participants highlighted that besides technical expertise good communication skills are fundamental for developers within a software team ."

Absolutely true in my experience. A high-performing team of majority women coached me to have our teams write "ground rules" for team communication. The improvement was a big leap forward. Many example ground rules are in my git repo:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/ground_rules

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Re:New study: Software teams with more women communicate better by Pfhreak on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:58PM (#22763750)
> good communication skills are fundamental for developers within a software team

This is absolutely true. Fundamentally, a great engineer is doing a TON of communicating -- writing technical designs, whiteboarding different approaches, explaining reasoning in code reviews, breaking down tasks for more junior engineers, coaching and mentoring others, interviewing... and about a million other things. The role of communication only increases as the problem complexity and scope increases.

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