[spencerfry]

Who's saying anything about focus? That's not the topic here. You're saying meetings (no matter how short or how on topic) are useless. That's really far from the truth. Any organization, no matter how small, needs to get together and re-hash what's going on within the company. You can't just expect to work telepathically.

[DenisM]

If you work in the same room you will stay up to date with your mates. When I checkin stuff, everyone in the room knows about it. And when I start cursing they know what's going, too.

I agree my "focus" comment was a bit offtopic. Got carried away there. :)

EDIT: and I did not say meetings are useless, please don't put words in my mouth. I said don't have them because there are better ways to stay in sync. Meetings can be useful, just not as efficient.

[spencerfry]

2 of us work out of the same office; the other works in a different state. (We do all get together every few months, though.) However, at least for us, we've found that it's better to separate ourselves inside the office for complete concentration. If someone needs to communicate with the other person, instead of yelling over to them, we send a message on Campfire and wait for the person to respond.

Anyway, this is all getting a bit off topic as far as meetings are concerned. I really think you need to do what is best for you and sometimes that's having weekly meetings, sometimes that's having monthly meetings, and sometimes that's having no meetings. However, I really advocate the weekly meetings, because it's very important to make sure everyone is on the same page. And not to sound corporate or anything, but you need to make sure your goals are aligned.