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Re:The business case for fewer developers in meetings by wanderingmind on Friday May 13, 2022 @12:43AM (#31363420)
Most of these communication can be asynchronous. If I look at task board, I know who is working on what. I don't need a meeting for that. If I need help with something, I can ask it in Slack and people can respond. Don't need to drag the entire team for the meeting.

The only devs who need to be in a lot of meetings are architects who design the technical solution based in businesses requirements. All other devs need minimal meetings to get their work done.

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Re:The business case for fewer developers in meetings by tommymanstrom on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:24AM (#31364751)
This works well when people: * assign themselves to tasks * keep status correct, eg move to correct column, resolve etc * updates tasks with comments every now and then

So many times this is not the case, especially not all above at same time. Sadly.

A short question and answer in chat better than a 60 minutes meeting though!

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