[citilife]

As a manager, I encourage my team to just say "no" where ever possible. I also always push to halve the times of meetings I'm in (and typically that works well).

- We have 10 min standup every day

- We have 30 min sprint planning every week

- We have 30 min retro every week

Beyond that we will talk as necessary between people. In reality pushing back is pretty effective at determining if a meeting is important. If they don't move it for you, you didn't need to be there.

[anontwitteruser]

> - We have 10 min standup every day

At my workplace we now have 90 minute daily standups because it was perceived the employees are not doing enough quick enough. It has obliterated any hope of progression in a single work day without overtime (unpaid!) since these typically will run over by a long margin, eating up what little time we had for actual development.

[projectazorian]

I've seen teams that have a 30+ minute morning standup, and an end-of-day standup of unlimited duration based on how much the lead wants to rant that day.

[junga]

Wow, 90 minutes. That‘s mind boggling. How many people do attend these daily meetings? I guess there‘s only a few persons using most of the time for their talking?

[anontwitteruser]

The entire team...

[megablast]

So 5 people?? We have no idea how big your team is.

[anontwitteruser]

30 people. Didn't need to downvote me for not specifying an exact number.

[icedchai]

Have you tried not showing up and seeing what the consequences are?

[anontwitteruser]

Threatening to put people on PIP, a few people tried to get excused from these meetings (even those who are rather all stars when it comes to output imo).