15: Team Jargon
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Dima and Slava talk about effective communication in teams, how bad jargon really is, and what to do with acronyms. PSA: this episode contains a lot of TLAs.
- What do we mean by "effective communication"? Precise and uses least possible time to reach mutual understanding
"Communicating requires some practice, but just communicating is not a practice"
- Communication in and out of the team
- 6 examples of corporate jargon you should stop using now
- Every water park is "best" according to some metric
- Source of truth and indicator for turning a pump on and off
- PSA: you are entering the TLA land
- What's the difference between acronyms and abbreviations?
- Style guide from UK Government Digital Service
- Slava tries to humiliate Dima checking how good he is with technology abbreviations
In the next episode: discussion of "Culture Code" by Daniel Coyle.
