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Working with engineers

Working with engineers

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Working with engineers

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- Hey there, good to see ya again. Let's get into the details on how to communicate with different types of people, and we'll start first with engineers. So engineers are lovers of detail. When talking to them, emailing them, or anything else, be very detailed about the thing you're describing. This is because engineers are always thinking about software and how what you're saying may or may not work in a technical sense. The clearer you are here, the better. I can't tell you how many times early in my career I was not detailed enough in my talks with engineers or while sending them feature specifications. In order to develop efficiently, they need to know things that other people don't, things like what happens when the screen is displayed in another language. What is the error state read when something goes wrong on this page? What happens when there's no data to see on this page? This is often referred to as an empty…

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