Comments on: The Dirty Dozen #1: Lack of Communication http://www.pythian.com/news/409/the-dirty-dozen-1-lack-of-communication/ News and views from Pythian DBAs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:01:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Alex Gorbachev http://www.pythian.com/news/409/the-dirty-dozen-1-lack-of-communication/#comment-43416 Alex Gorbachev Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:41:26 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/409/the-dirty-dozen-1-lack-of-communication#comment-43416 No, about dozen of my comments went into spam and deleted (no surprise ah?) and Tim was very kind to manually pull them out of MySQL database. No, about dozen of my comments went into spam and deleted (no surprise ah?) and Tim was very kind to manually pull them out of MySQL database.

]]> By: Doug Burns http://www.pythian.com/news/409/the-dirty-dozen-1-lack-of-communication/#comment-42954 Doug Burns Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:41:25 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/409/the-dirty-dozen-1-lack-of-communication#comment-42954 Alex, Thanks for the comment. I completely missed it the first time. Maybe I don't get an email when someone from Pythian posts a comment? Cheers, Doug Alex,

Thanks for the comment. I completely missed it the first time. Maybe I don’t get an email when someone from Pythian posts a comment?

Cheers,

Doug

]]> By: Holiday writings « Pete-s random notes http://www.pythian.com/news/409/the-dirty-dozen-1-lack-of-communication/#comment-31987 Holiday writings « Pete-s random notes Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:14:24 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/409/the-dirty-dozen-1-lack-of-communication#comment-31987 [...] Holiday writings 29 03 2007 Doug Burns is wearing his Pythian hat as he writes about the art of communication for DBAs. Cleverly, he avoids the word developer in his list of people to communicate with but in reality what he says holds true for DBAs, developers and that hybrid between the two that certainly exists but is often not acknowledged in polite company. Without good, clear and adequate communication things go wrong by omission and assumption. But communication is a two-way street, or at least it is for good communicators, how else do they know that the message was received and understood. So Doug, if you leave notes for Alex, expect to get feedback notes in return. [...] [...] Holiday writings 29 03 2007 Doug Burns is wearing his Pythian hat as he writes about the art of communication for DBAs. Cleverly, he avoids the word developer in his list of people to communicate with but in reality what he says holds true for DBAs, developers and that hybrid between the two that certainly exists but is often not acknowledged in polite company. Without good, clear and adequate communication things go wrong by omission and assumption. But communication is a two-way street, or at least it is for good communicators, how else do they know that the message was received and understood. So Doug, if you leave notes for Alex, expect to get feedback notes in return. [...]

]]> By: Alex Gorbachev http://www.pythian.com/news/409/the-dirty-dozen-1-lack-of-communication/#comment-31877 Alex Gorbachev Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:45:46 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/409/the-dirty-dozen-1-lack-of-communication#comment-31877 Brilliant! Thanks Doug. So as your/poster's point number two goes, here is the short summary (I rearranged them): 1. DO communicate 3. Do OVER-communicate 2. In case you DID OVER-communicate, SUM UP Why 1 is important? Go and read the post again. Why 3 is important? Indeed, it's better to have just enough and not too much. Right? The reason behind is laziness. It's easier to assume that we provided enough because it's more convenient. So trying to over do it generally bring communication level up to the acceptable level. Why 2 is important? Not only because of direct summary benefit. It MAKES YOU COMFORTABLE that if you provided way too much (see 3), a receiver can still go with a shortedr version and, thus, get the point in any case. Brilliant! Thanks Doug.

So as your/poster’s point number two goes, here is the short summary (I rearranged them):
1. DO communicate
3. Do OVER-communicate
2. In case you DID OVER-communicate, SUM UP

Why 1 is important? Go and read the post again.

Why 3 is important? Indeed, it’s better to have just enough and not too much. Right? The reason behind is laziness. It’s easier to assume that we provided enough because it’s more convenient. So trying to over do it generally bring communication level up to the acceptable level.

Why 2 is important? Not only because of direct summary benefit. It MAKES YOU COMFORTABLE that if you provided way too much (see 3), a receiver can still go with a shortedr version and, thus, get the point in any case.

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