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My longest meetings are the design sessions. It's myself, another architect, and our director for 2 hours twice a week. However, I don't consider that a meeting as much as a productive working session.
That sounds miserable and unproductive OP :'(
I have around 18 hours per week of prebooked meeting time (1:1s, team meetings, planning, 1:1 with manager, sync meetings with different cross initiatives, interviews, candidate screening, etc). I have observed that my biggest productivity killer are not those meetings (I try to make them useful for me and I try to make sure they are useful for everyone). The biggest problem comes when the time around them is very fr…
Standing meetings are 99% a waste of time, usually about someone/s trying to climb the career stripper pole.
At least 5 hours per week. ~1 hour long standups each day in the middle of the day. Then ~monthly 1 on 1s for an hour.
I think it was a side effect of the scrum coaches having little work to do, so we would have planning meetings with the whole team, even if nothing in your domain was on the schedule for the meeting. We also re-defined primative agile concepts every week, as in we would have to debate what a bug, task, or chore meant, every week.
When I raised the concept of meetings only involving those who it concerned, or even better, letting a workflow develop organically, I was accused of being lazy and not committed. In a lot of manager heavy orgs, the culture is that meetings are what productivity is measured by, and more visible.
At one point I had 3 or 4 mandatory meetings a week, totaling 9 or 10 hours a week. I think it was a side effect of the scrum coaches having little work to do, so we would have planning meetings with the whole team, even if nothing in your domain was on the schedule for the meeting. We also re-defined primative agile concepts every week, as in we would have to debate what a bug, task, or chore meant, every week. When…
Here's a rough survey, should be able to see result graphs afterward submission:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUkV2P1VxAnRSD88eU...
Raw data results link for community to look at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x59q4CbEGOeYirskJ7Ac...
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Main Q: ~16 hrs/week (had about 10 1:1's/week for a while)
Bonus Q: 2hrs
Daily stand-up.
Weekly department.
Weekly refinement.
One or more demos per week.
One or more random meetings per week.
Weekly, I have...
* 1on1's with my developers and peers (30min per person, 4-6 per week)
* Standup (2x 15 min)
* Engineering leads meeting (1x 30min)
* SRE catchup (1x 1hr)
Other misc meetings...
* Engineering leads kvetch (unstructured 1hr every 2wks, cut short if there's nothing on our minds)
* My squad's retro (45min every 3wks)
* My squad's grooming (1hr every 3wks)
* Platform retro (multiple squads, 1hr every 1mo)
* BI-Quarterly KPI/OKR Planning & Review (1-2hr every 1.5 months)
* Skip-level manager meeting (1hr every 3mo)
Wednesdays are my no-meetings-slash-deep-work day. I probably invest between 1-3 hours in pairing, by request. I clean my calendar aggressively.
tl;dr ~5 hours of meetings per week