[skytrue]

I’ve been a part of many organizations where the meetings are bad. I don’t think it’s that meetings are inherently bad, but rather how different companies and teams use them.

I generally only invite people to meetings who I know will have important input or need the context. The meeting should be about determining next steps for N period and provide clarity and direction to take those steps.

Any other meeting I mostly find to be a waste of time. But when you get the right people in the room, once a week, to talk about progress on a new product (for example), it can almost entirely replace documentation and is far more flexible and lightweight.

I love writing a good narrative doc or spec, but it leaves room for interpretation. Other people are also not as skilled at writing, and it leaves them without a vehicle to communicate what they want.

So, yeah, agree that meetings are the work/can be an optimal tool for achieving work, but they need to be done right.