[sibit]

> Developers are expected to attend meetings more than ever. The focus required to deep dive into complex issues get's broken with meetings that developers shouldn't be attending. You can attend meetings or you program rarely can you do both effectively on the same day and rarely can you get the focus you once had.

I recently started a new job where we have weekly recurring "standups" with clients. Most of the gaps between meetings are an hour with a few 1 1/2 hour gaps throughout the week. After the 3rd day I asked my boss "with all these recurring meetings when an I suppose to actually get my work done"?

[Trasmatta]

I'm curious, how did your boss respond to that?

[rablackburn]

My bet would be something like:

"haha, yeah it's ridiculous, right?"

IME it's sadly common for an organisation to have a Problem, for everyone to acknowledge there is a Problem, for someone to even come up with a roadmap to solve the Problem...and yet nothing will change because there is some ineffable disconnect between knowing and doing.

Really it seems to come down something like "well, if we're going to go to all the effort to change something, we better do it right. If you can't prove the change you're going to make is going to solve this issue perfectly forever it's better to leave it as it is right now. rather than waste all that effort"

or, "good idea, let's add a weekly meeting to monitor fixing this issue"

[Trasmatta]

> or, "good idea, let's add a weekly meeting to monitor fixing this issue"

At one company, we started having daily "show and tell" meetings at the end of every day in addition to daily morning standups. I said during a retro that these were causing extra stress for the team, and felt unnecessary.

The team lead responded to that by making them 15 minutes longer, because he claimed the stress was just coming from team members not having enough time for their demos.

[rawoke083600]

That is horrifying !

[mpweiher]

The weekly pre-meeting to the weekly meeting on streamlining our processes.

I kid you not.

p.s.: "I have an idea as to how we could streamline our processes!"

[sibit]

He let me change my hours so I now work 6:30am to noon. The rest of the day I play video games, watch tv, walk my dog, go grocery shopping, etc. I just make sure to show up to the the 15 - 30 minute "standups" throughout the afternoon.

It might not be an ideal schedule for everyone but I have almost 4 uninterrupted hours in the morning and I naturally wake up early so it works for me.