If you multitask, so will your team

Re:If you multitask, so will your team by philipodonnell on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:48AM (#16239533)

Is your employer a software consulting company with teams working for different clients? I could see how in that kind of meeting there would be very little overlap in situational awareness of what each client's requirements are. I was imaging a team working on different parts of the same large product, where it may not be feasible to identify everyone who might be able to provide constructive criticism ahead of time to get them into one of those ad-hoc meetings.

Although, "that's the idea but it doesn't work in practice" is a fine answer, too.

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Re:If you multitask, so will your team by dgreensp on Friday January 26, 2018 @12:12PM (#16240855)

I was in 50-person all-hands meetings for a product at Google, and there wasn’t the time or the context for anyone to give feedback on anything. At the time I felt bad about my inability to pay attention — without my laptop out I would barely have been able to stay in the room due to boredom — but the meeting really was a poor format and a waste of people’s precious time, attention, and energy, even at an hour a week.

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