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God, meetings. So many meetings. Why? Why?!
by cushychicken 10y ago
God, meetings. So many meetings. Why? Why?!
- mac01021 10y agoA significant fraction of designing any complex system consists of getting the people who design different parts to agree on the interface between those parts.
- cushychicken 10y agoThat was a very high minded response to an attempt at commiserating.
- mac01021 10y agoYeah. Sorry... I do think, though, that it's possible for an organization to structure it's meetings so that they're a useful and productive part of the job, and not a thing to be dreaded in the least. I've seen this done with varying degrees of success/failure.
- cushychicken 10y agoI think a real problem is that meetings bloat in attendance, and that the amount of useful stuff you can get done is inversely proportional of the number of attendees. I think this is doubly true when you don't have good, clear leadership and agendas. This doesn't happen that often in my experience. I feel like I go to a lot of meetings with a lot of people who are just there to be "in the loop" rather than actually contributing to the topic at hand.
- johan_larson 10y agoBecause our hive-mind technology is sadly underdeveloped. :( If there were a Borg-a-Tron 5000 that we could all stick our heads in to let dev and QA and PM and mgt know what the rest of the team was thinking, I'd use it. But only during work hours.