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If you are in a leadership position this is kind of a nightmare. If you are just an IC you're bolder than I. tbh my morning standup could be reduced to a sentence.
For your standup, I've really enjoyed my teams switch to writing out what were doing that day in our team's chat channel. Then we still have a standup, but we talk about interesting problems and blockers and not just what were doing.
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Not in a sarcastic business-meeting context.
People do not use it sarcastically in my experience. Plenty of non sarcastic references like this https://www.atlassian.com/agile/scrum/ceremonies
Programmers often think the technical aspect of the work is the most important. I’ve met many developers wannabe entrepreneurs who were convinced they had to spend as much time perfecting their app as possible instead of talking to prospective customers. We all know that doesn’t end well. What I realized over my relatively long IT career is that maybe developers just don’t get why meetings are necessary. Not saying a…
I think we should make a distinction here. Client, prospect and customer meetings are absolutely necessary and you should prioritize those no matter what. Internal time wasting meetings are the pinnacle of the art of not working and should be avoided at all costs.
Also customers can waste your time!
Wait till they use it to show the cost of your time spent on HN, or gabbing while refilling your coffee cup.
My biggest gripe is "all-hands" meetings that often run over an hour. I'm pretty sure it's just upper management stroking their egos. I have no power in the decisions that have been already made, and are then relayed in these meetings. This crap could be summarized in a couple of paragraphs in an email, and I can read faster than they can talk.
Should Zoom build this in as a feature? Why or why not?