Here's my answer to these meetings: I just stopped going to them. If you ask people why they go, it's generally to "see and be seen as working hard". But in ge

Here's my answer to these meetings: I just stopped going to them. If you ask people why they go, it's generally to "see and be seen as working hard". But in general, the people that matter don't attend these pointless meetings: they send their least qualified subordinates in their place because they're the only ones with time to go. You don't need a weekly meeting to deliver a status update. You need a single e-mail once a week. Or better yet, just use whatever project management/bug tracking system and create a dashboard so you don't even need to meet. All you have to do then is have the project/scrum master harass people to log their tickets (which they are probably already doing anyway). The real decisions are made one-on-one anyway -- meetings are just a place where people posture and take credit for things.