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title: "Effective Miscommunication"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2011/11/5/effective-miscommunication.md"
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published: "2011-11-05T18:17:16"
updated: "2011-11-05T18:17:16"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "My previous post was precieved by some people as an arrogant, self congratulatory public postering of someone who wrote me some praise. That was not the intended meaning of that post. It was about effective ways of…"
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# Effective Miscommunication

By Roy Osherove November 5, 2011

**Historical article** · Originally published November 5, 2011; technical details may be outdated.

My [previous post](https://osherove.com/blog/2011/11/5/this-is-not-a-question-just-a-comment-for-you-roy.html) was precieved by some people as an arrogant, self congratulatory public postering of someone who wrote me some praise.

That was not the intended meaning of that post.

It was about effective ways of communication, and the irony of that email having the same ineffective communication problem.

I apologize if that seemed very arrogant to you. I am still very proud of what I do and every once in a while if I get an email that really makes me think, and feel both weird and good, I might publish it here.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/