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Why attend a meeting just to say that?
by paulmooreparks 6y ago
Why attend a meeting just to say that?
- crawlcrawler 6y agoBecause someone else in the meeting might say "I'm working on X, I'm stuck and I need help" whereby you might say "Hey, I've worked on X before, chat me up after this meeting and I'll try and help out".
- lostcolony 6y ago^ This. If everything is going well, it's five minutes spent. If anything -isn't-, it's five minutes spent highlighting where additional interaction needs to take place. Even if everything is going well, a status update can be "I'm working on X, no blockers", and someone else can still say "Oh! I've done X! Let me know if you need help", setting the team up for avoiding future obstacles. Without it, you'll have people hammering at the same problem for days without raising it up because they don't realize anyone else can help them. Or reinventing the wheel because they don't realize someone else has already done it. Etc. Done right, it's an excellent way to spend 5 minutes. Done wrong, it's a waste of an hour.
- kats 6y agoE.g. I might be blocked by some bug I am working on, and have no idea that Jim encountered this 2 months ago and has it all worked out. Normally I wouldn't have thought to ask Jim because he's currently working on something else. So this quick meeting is a way to discover that somebody else has already solved the problem I'm working on.