~3.5 hours. One 2 hour weekly department meeting. 10 ~ 15 minute standup each day, and finally a 45 minute sprint review & sprint planning meeting.
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#42At 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.
Those "standups" sound like pure hell. How many people are on your team? You should be complaining regularly until the situation changes.
Only 2 other devs and 1 sysadmin. I've only been in this job for a few months so it hasn't worn on me yet, but it is definitely starting to.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those "standups" sound like pure hell. How many people are on your team? You should be complaining regularly until the situation changes.
Only 2 other devs and 1 sysadmin. I've only been in this job for a few months so it hasn't worn on me yet, but it is definitely starting to.
At least your team is correctly sized, so there is some hope.
At a previous company, we had 12 people in a standup. It took about an hour. (I didn't stay there long.)
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#44too damn many
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#45I 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…
Another technique is to insist on an agenda before any meeting, both for time to prepare and to see if it's pertinent, or the default answer is "no." Standing meetings are 99% a waste of time, usually about someone/s trying to climb the career stripper pole.
Standing meetings are also used to force procrastinators to report in frequently enough that they stop relying on "secret" all-nighters at the end of the week to get their work done
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#46Engineer: In my current job, I have _one_ 30 minute meeting a week, in a company of 100 staff, and maybe 20 developers.
At worst, in a previous job, where I was the system architect, I probably spent close to 20 hours a week in scheduled meetings. My longest regularly scheduled meeting was about 2 hours.
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#47Not engineering side...
About 5 per week - mostly 30 mins. Beyond that it's personal style: I much prefer 1:1s to catchups over a coffee so not much meetings happening my side. If something is inconvenient I just skip it - nobody's really on my case about meetings.
>What's the longest duration meeting you regularly have?
1 hr
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#48I’m a tech lead. If I go to all my scheduled meetings I’ll be in them about 3 hours of the day.
My longest regular meeting is 1 hour though.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another technique is to insist on an agenda before any meeting, both for time to prepare and to see if it's pertinent, or the default answer is "no." Standing meetings are 99% a waste of time, usually about someone/s trying to climb the career stripper pole.
Standing meetings are also used to force procrastinators to report in frequently enough that they stop relying on "secret" all-nighters at the end of the week to get their work done
i am both the driver of my team moving to 15-minute stand ups, and the dude “secretly” pulling the occasional heroic all nighters. peak cognitive dissonance rn
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Standing meetings are also used to force procrastinators to report in frequently enough that they stop relying on "secret" all-nighters at the end of the week to get their work done
i am both the driver of my team moving to 15-minute stand ups, and the dude “secretly” pulling the occasional heroic all nighters. peak cognitive dissonance rn
hah.
Do you actually get standups resolved in under 15 minutes more than half the time?
If so, what's your secret?