Core Skills for Technical Professionals (Jacqui Read)

The strongest tech skills don’t necessarily guarantee success. To get the best from those around you-and maximize your own influence-you need to boost your tech skills with core skills. Fortunately, small changes in the way you work can produce big results.
In this session, Jacqui Read, author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects, takes you on a whistle-stop tour of patterns and techniques to improve your visual, verbal, nonverbal, written, knowledge, and remote communication skills. You’ll learn communication core skills tuned specifically to a technical audience, which you can easily integrate into your existing workflows for quick and transformative results.
You’ll learn how to:
- Use core skills to boost your technical skills
- Explore visual, nonverbal, written, knowledge, and remote communication skills
- Integrate communication core skills into your everyday workflow for transformative results
ABOUT JACQUI
Jacqui Read is an internationally-recognised solution and enterprise architect, and author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects. She teaches public and private workshops and speaks at international conferences on topics such as architecture practices, technical communication, and systems design. Jacqui specialises in untangling and extracting value from data and knowledge, helping businesses to determine direction in complex environments.
Her professional interests include collaborative modelling, knowledge management, Domain-Driven Design, sociotechnical architecture, and modernising enterprise architecture practices. Outside of work she enjoys gardening and strumming her ukulele while singing at the same time. Her website is jacquiread.com.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:47 Agenda
3:23 Core skills intro
6:35 Know your audience
11:38 Too many colors
14:00 Match the diagram flow to expectations
17:52 Products over Projects
28:31 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
38:38 Async to Think
46:27 Multiple-Letter Acronym Hell
50:03 Develop technical Writing
55:38 Summary
1:01:18 Live Q&A
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