Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how communication can seriously affect the outcomes of our projects. You can have the best architecture in the world and it can still fail to make any headway if you fail to communicate it properly or fail to deal with the resistance it engenders in your target audience.

This can be dispiriting to some architects of a more rationalistic bend. Surely, the facts and substance should be the determining factors. Unfortunately, in most organizations, better communication skills will beat stronger technical architecture skills in terms of getting things done.

The good thing is that communication skills, as with all skills, can be learned. There isn’t anything particularly hard about the ways in which you need to communicate to have greater success as an architect—it is just something that takes some practice.

We have now covered all the subject matter of the book and are ready to proceed to the conclusion, where we will summarize...