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The importance of communication skills for software engineers Erica Tanti @ericathedev @ericathedev Software engineers are bad at speaking in public Myth or reality? References: According to test developers, successful programmers

The importance of communication skills for software engineers Erica Tanti @ericathedev @ericathedev
Software engineers are bad at speaking in public Myth or reality?
References: ● “According to test developers, successful programmers had most of the same personality traits as other white-collar professionals. The important distinction, however, was that programmers displayed “disinterest in people” and that they disliked “activities involving close personal interaction.” It is these personality profiles, says Ensmenger, that originated our modern stereotype of the anti-social computer geek.” - https://gender.stanford.edu/news-publications/gender-news/researcher-reveals-how-computer-geeks-replace d-computer-girls VS ● “Individuals and Interactions” - http://agilemanifesto.org/ ● “The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.” - http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html @ericathedev
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References: Linda Rising on “Solomon Asch social pressure/conformity experiment” ● (circa 21:00) https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/thinking-fast-slow-ethics-biases Conquer your public speaking fears (my article in the JAX Magazine) ● https://jaxenter.com/jax-magazine/issues/jax-magazine-august-2018-java @ericathedev
Main points: The best way to learn how to speak is to speak! ● Some typical scenarios: ● Meetings (tips: prepare points in advance, be the first to speak) ○ Networking (tips: sit next to people you don’t know during lunch or ○ in talks, open posture which invites people to strike up a conversation, quality not quantity) Presentations/Talks (tips: see next slide) ○ @ericathedev
Some advice
Main points: Emotions (How you made people feel) / Having 1 main ● message / Using stories to make an emotional connection Slides are difficult - avoid them when starting out, use ● them to help get your message across better not as notes for yourself Getting feedback/ watching your talks back ● @ericathedev
Find your safe space londonjavacommunity.co.uk jci.cc toastmasters.org
Links: London Java Community - http://londonjavacommunity.co.uk/ ● Toastmasters - Local: https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club, Online: ● https://toastmasters.org/resources/online-clubs-list JCI - https://jci.cc/en/connect#become-member-anchor ● @ericathedev
Further reading - only if you’ve committed to speaking first! Quiet: ● Book: https://www.quietrev.com/quiet-the-book/ ○ 9 best loved stories: https://www.quietrev.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/QR_ebookMay8-2015.pdf ○ Blog: https://www.quietrev.com/ ○ Persuade on Purpose: ● https://www.amazon.co.uk/Persuade-Purpose-Create-Presentations-Influence-e book/dp/B06XC562TS Resonate (e-book): https://www.duarte.com/resonate/ ● @ericathedev
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