Meetings

[George]

Damn, the systems lead on one of my projects just scheduled a daily meeting every non-holiday day until the end of March.

I think I'm the only one that doesn't hate the weekly IPT meetings (because it gives me a chance to see what everyone else is working on), but daily? Especially since three days a week, I'm working on another program on the opposite side of the building.

[Peijen]

Ask your other project manager to schedule meetings at the same time and don't show up for either of them. Tell them conflict of schedule.

[Jason]

The proposal I'm working on instituted daily meetings two weeks ago. It's not all that bad. I use it mostly to ask what work people want me to do since they never give me enough for more than a few hours. It's also not too bad since they've canceled most of them.

[Peijen]

Only becuase you asked too many questions.

[VLSmooth]

Damn, the systems lead on one of my projects just scheduled a daily meeting every non-holiday day until the end of March.

Two notes:

• Why?
  
  Having daily sounds to be more counter-productive compared to weekly meetings, barring very weird circumstances (like not knowing what you're doing / tons of tiny projects that require coordination, ie. on-the-fly integration)
• Sucks to be you (*'.')b

Two meetings a week isn't that bad either, which is what I currently have.

[quantus]

Damn, the systems lead on one of my projects just scheduled a daily meeting every non-holiday day until the end of March.

I think the only way that could be worse is if they were for 3 hours and started at 8AM. Just be glad you don't have any people to sync up with in Europe or Japan...

[George]

Why?

Duh. That's the point of the post. If it made sense, it wouldn't be worth a post.

[George]

I think the only way that could be worse is if they were for 3 hours and started at 8AM. Just be glad you don't have any people to sync up with in Europe or Japan...

I worked one project a while ago where I got dragged into a telecon with some Australians. Luckily, they were the subcontractor, so the conferences were scheduled for early evening EST which was reasonable for us, but was pretty freaking early for the Aussies.

[Dave]

[ Mind ] bored

[quantus]

[ Mind ] bored

Me too. Today has just been a viscious cycle of read email, check mohtalim, check techbargains, read email, check outlook, read mohtalim, get something from the kitch/downstairs at the building xmas party/lunch, and read mohtalim then realize nothing that been posted in the last 5 minutes so I surf the web.

[quantus]

oh yeah, then I reach the point where I have to post something

[bob]

Having daily sounds to be more counter-productive compared to weekly meetings, barring very weird circumstances (like not knowing what you're doing / tons of tiny projects that require coordination, ie. on-the-fly integration)

I was reading something, perhaps about Xtreme Programming, or perhaps just some company's work description. And it mentioned that they had daily meetings, but they weren't the kind where you go into the conference room. They were all stand up meetings (nobody's got a chair) in the hallway or some common space. Everybody used the time to give an update on their own progress, or to ask for opinions/suggestions/etc from the other people. Then, after the meeting was done, people could have their own small meetings in front of their workstations if necessary, to explore particular questions that had been asked. This helped to keep the meetings short and to the point. Run this way, they were apparently very helpful.

[Dave]

but I dont have an assignment until late january

we need to blow some more shit up somewhere so i have some work!

[Peijen]

[quote="bob]...[/quote]Yep that's XP. From what I can tell, XP is programmers pushing back from all the unified process floating around. XP is very heavy on "try it, and keep trying it until we get it right." It has a lot of good stuff, but there are stuff I don't agree with as well.