In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Andrea Goulet & M. Scott Ford about their journey working together as a married couple and business partners, learning to collaborate and communicate despite having vastly different communication styles and viewpoints.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n - Effective communication is a competitive advantage\n - The system that you produce will only be as good as the communication structure you have in place while you build it\n - The importance of learning to speak each other\u2019s language \u2013 the terminology of development and business is different and it is necessary to take the time and effort to learn the different language\n - The concept of \u201cinception layers\u201d relating to how intensively someone is concentrating on an activity and their level of openness to interruption\n - The value of writing a daily journal in a wiki to share what\u2019s been happening and make progress and learning visible\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2zwXlnO\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nWant to see extented shownotes? Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2zwXlnO