Developing a Shared Organizational Consciousness Requires Big Fucking Meetings

Re:Developing a Shared Organizational Consciousness Requires... by aadilmaan on Sunday October 18, 2020 @04:36PM (#24820935)

Good for you. Small meetings and breakout sessions are more effective than absurd BFM :). What is your ideal small size meeting, hypothetically speaking, or when does it become a crowd?

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Re:Developing a Shared Organizational Consciousness Requires... by civilized on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:47PM (#24888247)

Four is my limit

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Re:Developing a Shared Organizational Consciousness Requires... by PopGreene on Thursday November 05, 2020 @07:29AM (#24997648)

I have rules of thumb for scheduling meetings:

1. Don't invite managers - unless you're told to.

2. Slot 10 minutes for each non-manager.

3. Add 15 minutes for each manager.

4. Add 30 minutes each for certain people - you know who I mean.

As developers, it can be confusing for us trying to understand why managers call so many pointless meetings. Just remember Maslow's hammer: "if all you have is a hammer, every job looks like a nail."

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Re:Developing a Shared Organizational Consciousness Requires... by aadilmaan on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:14AM (#25059012)

This is a really great rule of thumb. This stems from managers wanting to play an "active" role in solution because they have been asked to "lead". It sucks. When you are brainstorming you need meetings but if you push it to thousands of people, it's just the jungle and no productivity.

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Re:Developing a Shared Organizational Consciousness Requires... by aadilmaan on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @12:21AM (#24904471)

Thank you for sharing that.

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