> If you hate meetings because they require too much context switching away from code, and they stop you focusing, reorganise them so they don't do that. If yo

> If you hate meetings because they require too much context switching away from code, and they stop you focusing, reorganise them so they don't do that. If you have such agency, but in a significantly large organization, or even one that's just not empathetic to the issue, getting everyone's schedules to line up is why you end up with such fragmented meeting plans. Of course the meetings are not going to be organized around you specifically, when everyone is also in a half dozen sparodic meetings that they're trying to work around too. So the solution is to stop requiring so many people in the first place, so that everyone is "across it". It's not just devs either. 95% of the time, I contribute nothing, gain nothing, and could have gotten the same value out of an email summary. I find meetings are often covering a deficit in the planning and documentation of the project. A well planned project, and a well documented technology environment/application, will not need constant meetings in order to transfer tidbits of information over the lossy conduit of verbal meetings.