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What's odd about the "agile" companies, is that while you are a designer or engineer in product mode, you're not supposed to attend any meetings beyond daily standup, weekly IPM, and weekly retro... Maybe the odd town hall. Maybe the odd inception day or cross-team retro every few months for a major new initiative. But that's about it. PMs do attend other meetings mostly as a liaison to the outside world, because that's the gig, but even then, it tends to be limited.

The whole point (at least at Pivotal) is to spend more time coding/designing/testing and not in meetings.