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How much time do you “waste” on meetings?
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- Mark Gibbons
- @markgibbons25
A common gripe I hear or experience from time to time is that feeling that there are too many meetings in the day and that takes away from time that people can be productive.
After 15 years working in various sized teams, my take:
No daily stand-ups.
No non technical project managers. I'm convinced that daily stand-ups were invented by non technical project managers because they can't understand what they are reading and need the team to put it in layman's terms for them every day.
Have an informal team showcase once or twice a week. Each person shows off their work and uses it for an opportunity for early feedback.
Sprints are 6 weeks. Short enough that everyone can visualise how much can be done in that time and long enough to implement those bigger features.
Therefore sprint retro and sprint planning every 6 weeks.
Encourage chat threads focused on a feature so everyone has visibility if they need it.
One on one meetings or ad hoc meetings between team members are encouraged but make sure to circulate any findings or decisions or outcomes, and be respectful of peoples time, prefer chat threads unless it will be sorted out far quicker by meeting.