Dealing With A New Class Of Pointless Meetings
When no-one in the room has a vested interest, just what is going on? A survival guide for the progressive engineer.
I’ve spoken at length in the past about the pointlessness of most meetings — the unproductive ones, video conference call ones, all-hands ones, and even the worst of all, 1–1 ones.
I guess it’s a subject close to my heart, somewhat like a recently thrust dagger.
Anyway, they really are the gift that keeps on giving. That is, if you don’t like getting gifts as you always feel compelled to buy one in return or it’s a forced, and therefore extremely sad, Secret Santa pity-present-party kind of thing that companies tend to guilt trip on you during the festive season.
I got to wondering, strangely enough during yet another meeting that could have been an e-mail rather than a nearly 3 hour snooze fest of constitutional endurance, just why are meetings called at all and just whom is getting the benefit?
A Nomenclature of Nonsense
Technical meetings, between developers for instance, tend to be short and to the point unless they’re about spaces and tabs, the so-called benefits of micro-services over monoliths, or whether Python is ever going to be taken seriously as it’s still an interpreted language. Things can…
