I'm curious about what everyone considers to be a high frequency of meetings. Two 1-hour team meetings per week, along with a daily 15-minute stand-up meeting. Do you think this frequency is high?
A weekly status meeting (1 hr)
Three weekly status meeting update planning meetings (1 hr each)
Sprint planning every other week (2 hr)
Demo and retros every other week (2 hr)
Eight 1:1 weekly meetings (4 hrs)
That’s 12.5 hours per week so far without even counting any real project meeting where we solve anything. I’m generally around 16 hours a week in meetings and I’m not even a lead or anything. Just a standard coder at a small company.
And our velocity shows it. We’re slow at getting stuff done cause we just don’t have windows of time to focus. When meetings are only an hour apart, I rarely get to do anything productive between them. So two hour meetings can eat three hours+ of productivity.
This does not compute to me, do you have 8 managers? What's the content of these meetings?
The entire company has extensive amounts of 1:1s. Were in the mid 40’s of employee count.
Some weeks there might be more, some weeks I just have the team meeting. When there are more I try to get them to fall on the same days, so I still have some empty days left.
We tried using a daily standup but didn't find it productive, so we stopped.
That seems insane to me.