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Questions surrounding communications between programmers and the others involved in software development. This can include stakeholders, management, end users, designers, testers, and other developers.

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How can I sell a legacy program rewrite to the business?

Think extremely carefully before any rewrite. Read Joel Spolsky's blog post, Things you should never do. There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. …
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How do you keep emails short but complete?

Write a succinct message and for things you think people may want details, provide hyper links to external Wiki pages from Wikipedia, eHow or even pages written by yourself.
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