Yes; dysfunctional meetings suck up time. But on the other hand, in a dysfunctional team without meetings, developers do not coordinate their efforts, may not r

Yes; dysfunctional meetings suck up time. But on the other hand, in a dysfunctional team without meetings, developers do not coordinate their efforts, may not realise what is the most important to do on a given day, do not get a shared understanding of which aspects of their work can be improved, do not know or care about the full picture of the product that they are working on; information, instead of flowing freely between developers, or between teams of developers, or between management and developers, tends to stagnate in silos.