by Chris Fenning | 27 Oct 2021 | Advice for business teams communicating with technical teams, General information and advice for IT and technical teams, Improving technical to business communication
Your IT and software departments have a collaboration problem. A big problem. This isn’t my opinion, this is the finding of a Forrester research study. Most IT leaders say they need to improve IT team collaboration. One simple solution is to focus on communication...
by Chris Fenning | 22 Oct 2021 | Business language, Improving technical to business communication
How often do you hear buzzwords and think to yourself ‘Urgh, business language is just a load of meaningless drivel’? Most of the tech teams I work with have this complaint. They are then surprised when I say that buzzwords are not part of good business language. They...
by Chris Fenning | 20 Oct 2021 | Business language, Improving technical to business communication
Business language is an important thing to know if you want to be successful at work. Business language focuses on the effort and the outcome for activities at work (for more detail about business language, check out this article). We don’t need business language all...
by Chris Fenning | 15 Oct 2021 | Business language, Improving technical to business communication
Business language is a critical method of communicating at work. you may be familiar with the definitions of business perspective and business language from previous articles. But are you clear about exactly who uses business language? There are a few groups of people...
by Chris Fenning | 13 Oct 2021 | Business language, Improving technical to business communication
Many technical professionals discover not speaking business language is a barrier to progress. How many projects never get past the idea stage because the tech teams couldn’t explain their idea effectively? How many tech leads miss out on promotion because they don’t...