The other day, I says to Michael, I says

We suck so much at communication. Not you and me. I mean, I am including myself, but I mean ‘we’ in the universal human sense.

Today, I sucked again, and I am able to see exactly where I went wrong.

Be Specific⌗

If you have multiple environments being used for development purposes, don’t talk about making updates to “dev.” This is going to confuse people about whether you meant hacky-dev-builds.fancycloud.net or slightly-more-stable-dev.yourdomain.com.

Refer to the environment by something more unique like the URI, and don’t leave room for doubt about exactly what changes you made.

Don’t do this:

I just deployed the latest bits to dev.

Do this instead:

I just deployed to endpoint.host.tld. The changes included in this deployment since the last deployment are X, Y, and Z. [Actions people would need to take because of these changes]?.