As a manager, one of your key roles within your team and on of your key responsibilities to your stakeholders is to communicate a variety of information on a timely basis. This information could be technical and delivery-focused, such as information about bugs and incidents, or alternatively, it could be more managerial, such as information about risks, budgets, and PMO processes.

To communicate this information effectively, you need to have the ability to "switch domains." What I mean by this is being able to adapt to a different set of phrases and terminology. You need to be able to flip between technical and business; project and operations; software and infrastructure; and PRINCE2, Waterfall, and Agile, back and forth, seamlessly. The ability to explain things in a language your audience can easily understand is a vital skill in an effective...