Communication Failure That Almost Cost Me My Job
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A software engineering leader shares a career-defining failure where not proactively communicating project delays to leadership nearly cost them their job. The experience led to a 'pull-push-translate' communication framework: pulling information from all directions (above, across, and within the team), pushing it outward to stakeholders and downward to the team, and translating it into language each audience understands. Practical examples include weekly team status updates and stakeholder-facing risk communications. The key insight is that moving from individual contributor to manager requires shifting from gathering information for yourself to actively managing information flow for everyone around you.
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The shift from pulling information for yourself to managing information flowPull: gather context from all directionsPush: make information visible in all directionsTranslate: say it in the language the audience needsThe framework is simple — but the shift is notLook at how information is movingSort: