Communicating with C-level stakeholders

C-level stakeholders do not care about micro frontends. They also don’t care about microservices – or other parts of the technical realization. Instead, they care about their business and the impact of technical implementations on their business.

It is easy to think that in a setup where the executive level does not care about technical implementations, you should not mention micro frontends. While the name micro frontends may not ring a bell for these stakeholders, you should still remind them about the actual benefits and pitfalls of the system at hand.

In the following two subsections, we will go into two important tasks when dealing with the executive level: managing expectations and writing executive summaries. We’ll start with a brief excurse on expectation management.

Managing expectations

One of the most important things when writing executive summaries or performing C-level communication is the art of...