Agreed. Keep them short and focused. We use ours to review new PRs for the day and new requests that have come in from other parts of the company, in addition to covering blockers.

The PRs cover the “what did you do?” questions while getting eyeballs reviewing the work and for larger PRs we will schedule something. Keeps things moving well.

The inbound requests reviews keep us from having to have backlog estimating meetings as often since we are keeping up with it as they arrive.

If the time isn’t useful, find a way to make it useful.