6. Communicate information
As a professional working in the IT sector, you will need to communicate effectively with a variety of people, and across a range of areas. This means you will need to present information to different types of people for diverse purposes. This Forbes article provides a brief overview of why many IT professionals are enrolling in communications training to become a more effective communicators: Why Building Effective Communication Skills In IT Is Incredibly Important
We’ve curated resources and tools available to assist you in developing your communication skills as a student studying within the School of Information Technology.
Explore books, interactive videos, websites, that can strengthen areas of communication:
- Professional writing
- Editing
- Collaboration
- Oral communication
- Written communication
- Visual communication
- Technical writing
Professional communication
Article
This conference paper discusses the importance of soft skills for the IT professionals, and the necessity to teaching non-technical soft skills in university courses. In order to respond to job market’s demand, IT professionals are expected to work upon building soft skills like communication skills, team-building and leadership.
Book
This book provides IT managers with practices and strategies for fostering collaboration within their organizations. While companies introduce devops to solve technical issues and shorten the development life cycle, many soon realize that people working together is a key part of the process.
This book illustrates the best approaches and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse, best approaches and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. This can help inform how to communicate during software development.
This book is a practical guide to programming to help developers write better software. This includes communicating throughout the development process.
Interactive
- Tech Career Skills: Communication for Developers (LinkedIn Learning)
This course examines the barriers between technological concepts and nontechnical audiences and proposes ways to overcome them. This course is beneficial because the work of developers doesn’t stop when code is committed. You need to help others understand the value of what you do—and why.
Editing communication
Video
- Editing and Proofreading Made Simple (LinkedIn Learning)
This course will teach you the skills to professionally proofread and edit your work.
- Using Microsoft Editor in Word (LinkedIn Learning)
This video takes a look at Microsoft Editor in Word, the next-gen version of Spell Checker. This version still reviews your spelling and grammar, as well as clarity, formality, inclusiveness, and being concise.