[AdrianB1]

Usually as much as we have the time to discuss:

- status of current projects and resources that I manage (I am a manager myself)

- priorities and direction changes

- help needed, in any kind: escalations, resources, etc

From time to time, about every 3 months:

- feedback and intermediate performance review

- work plan updates

- strategy updates

[jevanish]

Can't you give most of those status update-y things another way? Seems like most of that would be covered in a standup, or email.

Your 1 on 1 could be so much more: your career growth, situations you want help with, feedback and ideas for them, things you want coaching on, any issues they should know about (like say a sick/dying family member), etc

[AdrianB1]

Most of the status update is somewhere in the 200+ emails each of us get daily; the weekly 30 minutes are to talk the most important points, not to inform, that is done upfront.

The last time we spent 15 minutes to discuss my idea of re-engineering the technical platform I own; my manager does not have the deep technical knowledge to understand the details and implications of the change, but I need his support to make it happen (to convince others, to allocate resource, etc) so I had to explain and convince him it is the right thing to do. The discussion was based on the 10 slides with diagrams that I sent a week before.