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One thing I learned: do not do meetings for status updates. Those are emails. Meetings are for decisions.
by tnolet 5y ago
One thing I learned: do not do meetings for status updates. Those are emails. Meetings are for decisions.
- LegitShady 5y agothat used to be the case for me, but since we all started working from home my manager started doing team meetings to try to get some of the discussion and help that happens incidentally in the office to have a time scheduled for it. So everyone talks about what they're doing and what difficulties they're having and I want to die as I waste time I could be working.
- tnolet 5y agoYour manager should encourage you to do this among your peers all the time. These are not meetings - with agenda, attendees, notes - these are just discussions among 2 or 3 people.
- ghostpepper 5y agoDo you ever help the people who are struggling with tips and suggestions?
- LegitShady 5y agoall the time. but its usually more productive in smaller get togethers than in team meetings where everyone 'presents' their stuff. If I'm helping someone else my stuff doesn't matter at that moment.
- jollybean 5y agoI think you need to have open ended meetings or you will miss a lot of things. It doesn't need to be every day.
- tnolet 5y agoFair. I would not call them meetings. They are 2, maybe 3 person “white boarding” sessions. They are problem solving and ideation things.
- jollybean 5y agoThat, and also after a speculative discussion about what's going on and you find out haphazardly that the team is always waiting for something that should really just be automated, but you mightn't have learned that otherwise. Or after 3 different meetings you keep hearing the same name popup about something. Or something feels off and you find out your lead devs mom just died. Or you find out that they're re-writing some bit of architecture again and you can't fathom why you weren't told about it. Or that someone told you something in private that they might not tell you otherwise. Or you have someone demo the thing to you and it's just crap, way worse than the verbal assessment you were given etc..
- HugoDaniel 5y agothere goes the scrum daily/weekly...