Meetings, Bloody Meetings (1976) [video]

I once attended a meeting about our need to reduce the number of meetings due to decreased productivity. We never ended up reducing our meetings.

On my current project, it is normal and expected that we will attend an average of 2 hours in meetings per day, and therefore our actual productive hours are calculated at 60 hours per 2-week sprint. I initially thought this was absurd and that there was no way this could be accurate, but it’s actually true. Between various Agile ceremonies, standups, design strategy, and ad-hoc meetings most of the devs on my team do indeed attend an average of 2 hours per day in meetings. For me as a lead, that is easily doubled.

I remember another one from the same series called "Who Sold You That, Then?"

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