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I'm reading a bit into his words, yes. Here's the part of interest: """You don’t have this problem with chat transcripts. Forcing people to reduce their otherw
by jherdman 15y ago
I'm reading a bit into his words, yes. Here's the part of interest:
"""You don’t have this problem with chat transcripts. Forcing people to reduce their otherwise rambling thoughts into concrete sentences helps focus discussion, too.
We’ll have meetings at GitHub, but I can count the number of full “meetings” we’ve had in the last year and a half on one hand."""
The former bit implying that the focus of sentences helps, the latter bit implying to keep the membership of the meeting to only those required.
Again: siloing is far more toxic than meetings in my experience. It's far too easy for a dev to wander down a path that has no value when operating in a silo. Agile tells us that we need to exist in a state of constant communication and feedback. This necessitates meeting with people in some fashion.
- famousactress 15y agoApologies, but my brain turns off when the word 'Agile' is used in a sentence in such a way that it could be comfortably replaced by the name of a deity. Anyways. Maybe semantics.. My points were just that meetings are basically awful, and that there's a distinction between communication and meetings... Meetings aren't the only form of communication.
- daleharvey 15y agothey are on campfire, they are constantly in communication I echoed his sentiments in a post I wrote about working remotely - http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html
- randomdata 15y agoThey haven't really eliminated meetings, they have changed the way meetings are conducted. Thanks to the technology, you can step out of a meeting at any time to have lunch or, you know, work without missing out on anything. As a result, meetings never need to end. I have worked under a similar model for almost a decade now. It comes with so many benefits over a traditional meeting that I am uncertain why any software development company would do it any other way.