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My main tip to this engineering manager: Try to overcome the default assumption that every meeting should be an hour long. There’s only one meeting on this ca
by jameshart 5y ago
My main tip to this engineering manager:
Try to overcome the default assumption that every meeting should be an hour long.
There’s only one meeting on this calendar that needs to be an hour - the team happy hour - and for some reason, that’s the one you have at 30 minutes duration.
Also: 30 minute stand ups are a bad sign; one possible reason they take 30 minutes: there’s a manager attending them.
- aweiland 5y agoA 30 minute standup is really a status meeting. Don't call it a standup.
- softveda 5y agoWhy is an engineering manager even attending team standup. If following scrum it is for scrum team members only. Even if they are invited then should go once a month or something to observe.
- benhurmarcel 5y agoThe problem is that calendar software and industry-wide habit pushes meetings to last a multiple of 30 minutes. And you can't trust that everyone will be connected or in the room before 10-15 minutes after the planned start. So 30 minutes transform into 15-20 minutes, and is too small for anything but a short chat that could have been an email.
- jameshart 5y agoThose are cultural habits that can be broken. Start meetings on time, don't let people straggle in. Setting half hour meetings is easy. For my part I'd love it if more people would accept 20 minutes as a reasonable meeting duration, but it definitely requires companywide norms to get people to fragment their calendars that way.