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Communication with Stakeholders

You should communicate transparently, timely, and understandably with all involved parties throughout the project and build a collaborative relationship.

For you as a front-end developer, this means: regularly sharing progress and design implementations with the client, answering questions from designers or back-end developers, or explaining technical constraints or possibilities to product owners. It's important to tailor the communication to the stakeholder and combine active listening with clear explanations, often translating technical concepts into business terms.

By communicating effectively, you build trust. As a front-end developer, you must also be able to convey technical limitations or accessibility concerns in an honest way and manage expectations around what's possible within time and technical constraints.

Starting Points

Key Points

  • Schedule regular contact moments with important stakeholders (e.g., weekly update or demo) to maintain engagement.
  • Be transparent about progress, but also about problems: explain bottlenecks in time along with your approach plan, so no one is surprised.
  • Actively listen to feedback or concerns from stakeholders and address them - show that you take their input seriously and incorporate it where possible in your advice.
  • Maintain a professional relationship: i.e., politeness, keeping agreements, not reacting defensively to criticism, and building trust through honesty.