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Forest Hoffman

The concept of "soft-skills" versus "hard-skills".

Inter-personal communication is the most important skill any developer/engineer/manager could have. Being able to effectively and efficiently communicate the needs of clients to technical requirements is crucial to team and product success. You can write the most elegant and clever code, but if no one can read it, or benefit from it, it's useless.