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Make people stand. Call it a standup. Make someone watch the clock
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I think having someone watch the clock is a great idea. We are working remotely today and this meeting is still dragging. We are approaching 1 hour now. >.<
I will suggest a clock on our next retro meeting. This is getting out of hand.
I’ve been at war with meetings for months and finally won.
It took me getting 1% mad about it and it ripped through the company for a while until now, everyone is finally on board with less meetings
Even cut out the stand ups. I started asking if I am really really needed on these things. Which forces them to tell me what they are ahead of time. And that forces them to plan and know what they are doing and why.
I’m a writer, I fight for my focus time. Especially writing highly technical stuff about all the SaaS we market…
less context switching = more productivity
Our standups/meetings are spiraling out of control with our new manager. He loves to keep talking. I am not sure if he likes to hear himself talk or what, but the meetings have grown significantly longer since he started. The norm now, scrum can go up to 45 minutes due to "parking lot" discussions every morning with the ENTIRE team. I don't think everyone is needed for those those "parking lot" meetings. I am sure those "parking lot" meetings will do fine with just the manager and the product owner, but it does cut down in our time to get committed work done, so that forces us to work more hours after hours. It really is tiring, and burning the team out. This morning meetings doesn't even include our other meetings throughout the day. So many agitating meetings. We had brought this up in the past, but it seems it has fallen on deaf ears.
That’s where you gotta go for the angle of, “not only do we get nothing out of this, it costs money.”
Because even 7 contractors on a weekly 15-min standup gets expensive. Can’t deny the cost angle!