[Kluggy]

I have two daily stand-ups (30 minutes) with different teams I’m a part of

A weekly status meeting (1 hr)

Three weekly status meeting update planning meetings (1 hr each)

Sprint planning every other week (2 hr)

Demo and retros every other week (2 hr)

Eight 1:1 weekly meetings (4 hrs)

That’s 12.5 hours per week so far without even counting any real project meeting where we solve anything. I’m generally around 16 hours a week in meetings and I’m not even a lead or anything. Just a standard coder at a small company.

And our velocity shows it. We’re slow at getting stuff done cause we just don’t have windows of time to focus. When meetings are only an hour apart, I rarely get to do anything productive between them. So two hour meetings can eat three hours+ of productivity.

[ahtihn]

> Eight 1:1 weekly meetings (4 hrs) > I’m not even a lead or anything

This does not compute to me, do you have 8 managers? What's the content of these meetings?

[Kluggy]

We prioritize relationships a ton here and so I meet 1:1 with each of my peers in both teams (3) and each manager of both teams, so that’s 8 people per week.

The entire company has extensive amounts of 1:1s. Were in the mid 40’s of employee count.