meetings
we have a lot of meetings at my work. This morning 6 of us were summoned to a meeting to decide the best time to have our next meeting.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:21, 7 replies)

what time did you decide on then
come on, finish the story
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:23, closed)

^ This

( catweasle neither a cat nor a weasle, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 16:05, closed)

Apologies
The story is very boring isn't it unless you find out what time the meeting is. We will be having the meeting this time next week, to flesh things out a bit.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 22:03, closed)

haha
Yeah we once had to have a meeting with the CTO. So before that, we had a meeting with the manager to discuss what we should say to the CTO, and after the meeting with the CTO we had another meeting with the manager to discuss the meeting we just had. :D
All good :)

Meetings.. Talking about the work youre doing, without actually doing the work!
(Miggyman, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 16:27, closed)

once upon a time
I looked at which meetings everyone was attending and drew a graph. It showed that the more senior you were the more meetings you attended, and the more meetings you attended the longer each meeting was. So it was relatively easy to spend all your time in meetings and have no time to actually do any work.

On the other hand, talking to people can be useful too, so I shouldn't have been so cynical
(Smale is stuffed, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 16:29, closed)

Slave to the system
A meeting is a business tool, Its not the be-all or end all.
One place I worked had a policy of standing meetings for the weekly catch up. Stops any gaseous windbag getting too comfortable
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 20:00, closed)

.
We have weekly stand-ups, but everyone is allowed to sit down.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 9:30, closed)