Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
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Re: Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
#2It's pretty crazy how expensive a simple sprint planning meeting really is if you have 5+ engineers.
Re: Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
#3It's pretty crazy how expensive a simple sprint planning meeting really is if you have 5+ engineers.
Not to mention, depending on the size of the company / org, all hands meetings can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Re: Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
#4It's pretty crazy how expensive a simple sprint planning meeting really is if you have 5+ engineers.
Not to mention, depending on the size of the company / org, all hands meetings can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.
... especially if you fly them cross-country and put them up in hotels. (I've read some stories.)
Re: Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
#5Technical solutions to social problems don't usually work, why would this be different?
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#6Technical solutions to social problems don't usually work, why would this be different?
I don't see this as a technical solution to a social problem. I see this as a technical tool to help with a social solution to a social problem. Specifically, finding a way to communicate the opportunity cost of a meeting, which is a social solution to the social problem, because I don't need this app to do it, but it could help.
Re: Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
#7Simply announcing the cost of meetings afterwards would have a similar long term chilling effect without being the stereotypical passive aggressive engineer.
Re: Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
#8I worked for someone in the 90s that came over from Disney and he mentioned they had a similar system but with the dollar amount in huge type on the screen. I can't imagine what some of those Disney executive meetings cost.
Re: Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings
#9It's pretty crazy how expensive a simple sprint planning meeting really is if you have 5+ engineers.
I agree, but it's also expensive if you have those same 5+ engineers working on the wrong thing all week. Finding the right balance is hard.
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#10Wow, I do waste a lot of company money by slacking off :)