Communication Skills - What you Need to Succeed

Technical skills are fundamental to success in IT, but developers have a well-deserved reputation for having poor social skills. We all know the guy who is really great once you get to know him. But that's rarely the guy who moves ahead. To succeed in a technical career, we need to be able to communicate effectively with co-workers, managers, potential employers and customers.

This session will give some guidelines and helpful techniques that make it easier to express yourself confidently and clearly, and also to listen carefully so you can advance in your career.

About Scott Wierschem

Scott Wierschem has been coding for 35 years now. He loves nothing more than to dig into an old, crufty ball of mud codebase and refactor it to be more flexible and robust.

His Keep Calm and Refactor project is created to help developers get their unruly code under control so they can work on fun and rewarding projects.

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