[salmonlogs]

Absolutely.

There were multiple daily standups, weekly standups, twice-monthly retros, monthly project updates, bimestrial project updates and quarterly workshops and offsites.

Which meant once a quarter you had at least 2 solid weeks of nothing but sync/update/standup/retro meetings to talk about the work you talked about planning to do, but failed to do because you spent all your time talking about planning to talk about planning to do it.

[drewcoo]

Ironically, retros are the additional meeting where you can air grievances about everyone having too many meetings.

[data-ottawa]

The two big weaknesses of teams I've experienced are this and not having decision owners.

It doesn't have to be the same person for everything, but having a single designated person to own each decision avoids meandering too much when you're uncertain, or getting blocked by debate when you're confident.

My favourite leaders have come in and quickly said "you guys spend too much time talking about making a choice, X is in charge of this decision, move on".