How much of IT/programming jargon is too much to explain to others what a system can do?

Answer 1

I believe that Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides can answer your question in a "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" book. They collected common design patterns in software development and gave them names; so developers who familiar with these patterns can easily explain to other developers how some pretty complex parts of a system works just with few words

Answer 2

You can find a lot of material on this topic by googling "Design patterns in software development". By the way, there are also Anti-Patterns that every developer must know too.

Answer 3

Thank you so much. Kindly help me with a link to the book, is it available online?