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Ugh! Two typos in one short post.
It must be a weekend.
I never could get the hang of weekends.
Commented Feb 25, 2012 on Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die at Coding Horror
Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
How many meetings did you have today? This week? This month? Now ask yourself how many of those meetings were worthwhile, versus the work that you could have accomplished in that same time. This might lead one to wonder why we even have meetings at all. At GitHub we don't have meetings...
It's not meetinsg themselves that are bad.
It's unnecessary meetings or long meetings. Long, unnecessary meetings are the worst (and, unfortunately, the most common).
Agile practices (Scrum, in particular) proposes daily stand-ups - but even they can degenerate.
I was just reading about an interesting technique to counter that:
http://blog.benjaminm.net/2012/02/23/overlong-agile-stand-up-two-hand-rule/
Commented Feb 25, 2012 on Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die at Coding Horror
Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
How many meetings did you have today? This week? This month? Now ask yourself how many of those meetings were worthwhile, versus the work that you could have accomplished in that same time. This might lead one to wonder why we even have meetings at all. At GitHub we don't have meetings...
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