Re:Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habi...
by mytailorisrich on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:46AM
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While I agree with your overall comment, it is dangerous to be seen as "not useful"...
What I do is force the decision on those who are there to make this sort of decision: management.
That is, all my estimates include my honest assessment of all the time I will spend on meetings, etc. Then I can suggest that this could be shortened if I could skip this meeting and that meeting if they are deemed less important.
That way I'm being useful while skipping meetings. In fact, I'm so useful that the time I can spare on meetings is very limited ;)
Now, on the other hand, if the decision is made that the meetings are more important then when the dev. schedule slips it has nothing to do with me.
What I do is force the decision on those who are there to make this sort of decision: management.
That is, all my estimates include my honest assessment of all the time I will spend on meetings, etc. Then I can suggest that this could be shortened if I could skip this meeting and that meeting if they are deemed less important.
That way I'm being useful while skipping meetings. In fact, I'm so useful that the time I can spare on meetings is very limited ;)
Now, on the other hand, if the decision is made that the meetings are more important then when the dev. schedule slips it has nothing to do with me.